The United States' Proxy War in Syria

An in-depth examination of the United States'' indirect intervention into the Syrian war on two fronts: the covert CIA-led campaign against the Bashar al-Assad regime and the overt, Pentagon-led military operation against the so-called Islamic State in Iraq & Syria (ISIS). Matthew Ayton offers new insights into a dimension of US policy in Syria that has so far been given little analytical attention; the employment of what American strategists called the ''by, with & through approach'' to ground warfare. This saw the US provide weaponry and training to non-state militias in an attempt to achieve strategic objectives without deploying large numbers of troops, in order to reduce blood-and-treasure costs, following the costly post-9/11 wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. By drawing upon a wealth of original interviews with American national security officials and the Syrians who worked with them on the ground, this book shows that despite being presented as a cost-saving panacea to intervention, this strategy came with significant - costly - and even deadly - consequences.>

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Matthew Ayton, Matthew Ayton
• Mitarbeit: Andrew Mumford (Herausgeber), Andrew Mumford (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erscheint: 05.02.2026
• EAN: 9781350503205
• ISBN: 978-1-350-50320-5
• Seiten: 272
• Serie: Studies in Contemporary Warfare
• Themen: Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Politikwissenschaft > Politische Wissenschaft und Politische Bildung; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Security (National & International), POLITICAL SCIENCE / Geopolitics, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, Geopolitics, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Middle Eastern, International Relations, Middle East, Warfare & defence, United States of America, USA, Warfare and defence, c 2010 to c 2019, Cold wars and proxy conflicts, Irregular or guerrilla forces and warfare, Theory of warfare and military science