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1 online resource (v, 21 pages) |
| Summary |
The continuing proliferation of insurgent organizations suggests that insurgency is still widely perceived as an effective means either of achieving power and influence, or of bringing a cause to the notice of an international or national community. The end of European decolonization and the collapse of the Soviet Union together removed the motivational impulse for much conflict between the late 1940s and the late 1980s. However, new ideological, political, and commercial imperatives are now encouraging intrastate conflict and insurgency amid the breakdown of the international bipolar political system and the emergence of identity politics and of many more nonstate actors. This monograph considers the patterns of insurgency in the past by way of establishing how much the conflict in Iraq conforms to previous experience. In particular, the author compares and contrasts Iraq with previous Middle Eastern insurgencies such as those in Palestine, Aden, the Dhofar province of Oman, Algeria, and Lebanon. He suggests that there is much that can be learned from British, French, and Israeli experience |
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Title from title screen (viewed Sept. 27, 2005) |
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"January 2005." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 18-21) |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Insurgency -- Iraq -- History
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Guerrilla warfare -- History
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Guerrilla warfare.
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Insurgency.
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Iraq.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Army War College (U.S.). Strategic Studies Institute.
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| ISBN |
1584871830 |
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9781584871835 |
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