Simon Innes-Robbins

Dirty Wars (eBook, ePUB)

A Century of Counterinsurgency

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Who is the enemy? This is the question most asked in modern warfare; gone are the staged battles of the past. Twentieth and twenty-first century conflict is dominated by counterinsurgency operations, where the enemy is almost indistinguisable from innocent civilians. Battles are gunfights in jungles, deserts and streets; winning 'hearts and minds' is as important as winning territory. From our struggles in Ireland, to the Malayan Emergency, operations in India, Yemen, Kenya, Aden, Palentine, and of course Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan - this book covers the strategy and doctrine of counterinsurgency and how often these operations have been spectacularly unsuccessful, leaving us embedded in a hostile population, immersed in costly and dangerous nation-building. Through the experiences of Special Forces operatives we learn what it is like to fight a war in the shadows, against an enemy that can disappear as quickly as it is located.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: The History Press
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780752479019
• Artikelnr.: 45985761

Autorenporträt

DR SIMON INNES-ROBBINS has been an archivist at the Imperial War Museum since 1989. Having studied history at Nottingham University and war studies at King's College London, he completed his doctoral thesis at the latter. He is a well-received military history author.