Bullets Not Ballots - Success in Counterinsurgency Warfare

Informationen zum Autor Jacqueline L. Hazelton Klappentext "Examines how governments succeed against an armed, organized, persistent political challenge from their own people. It argues that compellence, the use and threat of force, explains and predicts counterinsurgency success as the result of government accommodation of rival political and armed elites, which gains the government information necessary to target the insurgency militarily; and the forceful control of civilians, which disrupts the flow of resources to the insurgency"-- Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Counterinsurgency: Eating Soup with a Chainsaw 2. Counterinsurgency: What It Is and Is Not 3. Not the Wars You're Looking For: Malaya, Greece, the Philippines 4. A New Laboratory: Dhofar, Oman 5. High Cost Success: El Salvador 6. How Much Does the Compellence Theory Explain? Turkey and the PKK 7. Counterinsurgency Success: Costs High and Rising

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Jacqueline L. Hazelton
• Editore: Cornell University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 31.05.2021
• EAN: 9781501754784
• ISBN: 978-1-5017-5478-4
• Pagine: 277
• Serie: Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
• Categorie: Saggistica > Storia > Altro; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Tematiche generali, enciclopedie