Beating Goliath: Why Insurgencies WinPotomac Books, Inc., 2011 - Всего страниц: 193 Beating Goliath examines the phenomenon of victories by the weak over the strong--more specifically, insurgencies that succeeded against great powers. Jeffrey Record reviews eleven insurgent wars from 1775 to the present and determines why the seemingly weaker side won. He concludes that external assistance correlates more consistently with insurgent success than any other explanation. He does not disparage the critical importance of will, strategy, and strong-side regime type or suggest that external assistance guarantees success. Indeed, in all cases, some combination of these factors is usually present. But Record finds few if any cases of unassisted insurgent victories except against the most decrepit regimes. Having identified the ingredients of insurgent success, Record examines the present insurgency in Iraq and whether the United States can win. In so doing, Record employs a comparative analysis of the Vietnam War and the Iraq War. He also identifies and assesses the influence of distinctive features of the American way of war on the U.S. forces' performance against the Iraqi insurgency. Make no mistake: insurgent victories are the exception, not the rule. But when David does beat Goliath, the consequences can be earth shattering and change the course of history. Jeffrey Record's persuasive logic and clear writing make this timely book a must read for scholars, policymakers, military strategists, and anyone interested in the Iraq War's outcome. |
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... Britain's traditional enemy and colonial rival. 17 Neither the Continental army nor American irregulars, including militias in New England and the mid-Atlantic colonies and guerrilla bands in the southern colonies, were in a position to ...
... Britain's traditional enemy and colonial rival. 17 Neither the Continental army nor American irregulars, including militias in New England and the mid-Atlantic colonies and guerrilla bands in the southern colonies, were in a position to ...
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... Britain. Even more assistance was to come. French intervention in the war prompted Spain and the Netherlands to declare war on Britain in 1779 and 1780, respectively, though not as allies of the United States. These three naval powers ...
... Britain. Even more assistance was to come. French intervention in the war prompted Spain and the Netherlands to declare war on Britain in 1779 and 1780, respectively, though not as allies of the United States. These three naval powers ...
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... Britain's transatlantic line of communications to America and its rich sugar empire in the Caribbean but also the security of Britain itself . For the first time in over a century , control over the maritime approaches to the British ...
... Britain's transatlantic line of communications to America and its rich sugar empire in the Caribbean but also the security of Britain itself . For the first time in over a century , control over the maritime approaches to the British ...
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... Britain would have to deal with a major threat to Gibraltar.21 The most dramatic impact of French intervention was the political concession London was now prepared to offer the Americans . With the war in America stalemated and ...
... Britain would have to deal with a major threat to Gibraltar.21 The most dramatic impact of French intervention was the political concession London was now prepared to offer the Americans . With the war in America stalemated and ...
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... Britain was a far larger, and financially and militarily more powerful, state than the Thirteen Colonies, but the combination of distance and the intervention of France condemned it to be the weaker side in North America. Thus, within ...
... Britain was a far larger, and financially and militarily more powerful, state than the Thirteen Colonies, but the combination of distance and the intervention of France condemned it to be the weaker side in North America. Thus, within ...
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