When Counterinsurgency Wins - Sri Lanka''s Defeat of the Tamil Tigers

Ahmed S. Hashim is Associate Professor in Security Studies at the Rajaratnam School of International Studies at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. He is also author of several books, including Insurgency and Counter-Insurgency in Iraq.

List of contents

Introduction

Chapter 1. The Sri Lankan War in Context

Chapter 2. Background to War: State Formation and Identities in Conflict

Chapter 3. The Eelam War I-III Campaigns

Chapter 4. Eelam War IV: A Military Analysis

Chapter 5. Postwar Sri Lanka: Reconciliation or Triumphalism?

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Acknowledgments

About the author

Ahmed S. Hashim is Associate Professor in Security Studies at the Rajaratnam School of International Studies at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. He is also author of several books, including Insurgency and Counter-Insurgency in Iraq.

Summary

When Counterinsurgency Wins is the first book to analyze the final campaign that won the decades-long civil war in Sri Lanka in 2009. Ahmed Hashim traces the development of the counterinsurgency campaign from the early stages of the war to the later adaptations and military strategy that led to a decisive finish.

Product details

• Authors: Ahmed Hashim, Ahmed S Hashim, Ahmed S. Hashim
• Publisher: University of pennsylvania pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.06.2013
• EAN: 9780812244526
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-4452-6
• No. of pages: 280
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education