Description
Book SynopsisThrough case studies of violent insurgent groups pitted against foreign state powers, including in-depth examinations of the war in Afghanistan and the 2003 Iraq war, Adapting to Win examines the circumstances and tactics that allow some insurgencies to succeed in wars against foreign governments while others fail.
Trade Review"
Adapting to Win makes highly compelling and analytically sound arguments about how to understand the forces that influence the ability of states to confront and defeat nonstate actors." * William C. Martel, The Fletcher School, Tufts University *
"A systematic and intellectually compelling work that advances a clear and powerful narrative of the forces that influence the ability of states to confront nonstate actors. The in-depth case studies in this book unearth a wealth of materials that are not well known." * T. V. Paul, McGill University *
Table of ContentsChapter 1. How Do Insurgents Fight and Defeat Foreign States in War?
Chapter 2. Origins and Proliferation of Sequencing
Chapter 3. How the Sequencing Theory Works
Chapter 4. The Conventional Model: The Dahomean War (1890-1894)
Chapter 5. The Primitive Model: Malayan Emergency (1948-1960)
Chapter 6. The Degenerative Model: The Iraq War (2003-2011)
Chapter 7. The Premature Model: The Anglo-Somali War (1900-1920)
Chapter 8. The Maoist Model: The Guinean War of Independence (1963-1974)
Chapter 9. The Progressive Model: The Indochina War (1946-1954)
Conclusion
Appendix A. List of Extrasystemic Wars (1816-2010)
Appendix B. Description of 148 Wars and Sequences
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
