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UNINA9910781713803321 |
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Autore |
Ledwidge Frank |
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Titolo |
Losing small wars [[electronic resource] ] : British military failure in Iraq and Afghanstan / / Frank Ledwidge |
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New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2011 |
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1-283-27990-8 |
9786613279903 |
0-300-18022-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (304 p.) |
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Iraq War, 2003-2011 - Participation, British |
Iraq War, 2003-2011 - Campaigns - Iraq - Baṣrah |
Afghan War, 2001-2021 - Participation, British |
Afghan War, 2001-2021 - Campaigns - Afghanistan - Helmand River Valley |
Strategic culture - Great Britain |
Great Britain Armed Forces Management |
Great Britain Military policy |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [270]-298) and index. |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: 'Ridiculous Expectations' -- Chapter 2: 'Defeated, Pure and Simple' -- Chapter 3: 'Where's Helmand?' -- Chapter 4: 'A Bleeding Ulcer' -- Chapter 5: Dereliction of Duty: The Generals and Strategy -- Chapter 6: Cracking On: British Military Culture and Doctrine -- Chapter 7: 'Tactics without Strategy?' The Counterinsurgency Conundrum -- Chapter 8: Doing No Harm? The Question of Force -- Chapter 9: Civvies -- Chapter 10: Bad Influences -- Chapter 11: Opening Networks -- Conclusion -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index |
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Partly on the strength of their apparent success in insurgencies such as Malaya and Northern Ireland, the British armed forces have long been perceived as world class, if not world beating. However, their recent performance in Iraq and Afghanistan is widely seen as-at best- |
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disappointing; under British control Basra degenerated into a lawless city riven with internecine violence, while tactical mistakes and strategic incompetence in Helmand Province resulted in heavy civilian and military casualties and a climate of violence and insecurity. In both cases the British were eventually and humiliatingly bailed out by the US army.In this thoughtful and compellingly readable book, Frank Ledwidge examines the British involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan, asking how and why it went so wrong. With the aid of copious research, interviews with senior officers, and his own personal experiences, he looks in detail at the failures of strategic thinking and culture that led to defeat in Britain's latest "small wars." This is an eye-opening analysis of the causes of military failure, and its enormous costs. |
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UNINA9910580162503321 |
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Titolo |
Graph Transformation : 15th International Conference, ICGT 2022, Held as Part of STAF 2022, Nantes, France, July 7–8, 2022, Proceedings / / edited by Nicolas Behr, Daniel Strüber |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2022 |
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ISBN |
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[1st ed. 2022.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (216 pages) |
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Collana |
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Lecture Notes in Computer Science, , 1611-3349 ; ; 13349 |
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Computer science - Mathematics |
Discrete mathematics |
Data structures (Computer science) |
Information theory |
Computer programming |
Software engineering |
Compilers (Computer programs) |
Algorithms |
Discrete Mathematics in Computer Science |
Data Structures and Information Theory |
Programming Techniques |
Software Engineering |
Compilers and Interpreters |
Design and Analysis of Algorithms |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Theoretical Advances -- Application Domains -- Tool Presentation. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Graph Transformation, ICGT 2022, which took place Nantes, France in July 2022. The 10 full papers and 1 tool paper presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 19 submissions. The conference focuses on describing new unpublished contributions in the theory and applications of graph transformation as well as tool presentation papers that demonstrate main new features and functionalities of graph-based tools. |
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