1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910463880703321

Autore

Hashim Ahmed

Titolo

When counterinsurgency wins [[electronic resource] ] : Sri Lanka's defeat of the Tamil Tigers / / Ahmed S. Hashim

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2013

ISBN

0-8122-0648-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (276 p.)

Disciplina

954.93/032

Soggetti

Counterinsurgency - Sri Lanka

Insurgency - Sri Lanka

Tamil (Indic people) - Sri Lanka - Politics and government

Electronic books.

Sri Lanka History Civil War, 1983-2009

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- CONTENTS -- Introduction -- 1. The Sri Lankan War in Context -- 2. Background to War: State Formation and Identities in Conflict -- 3. The Eelam Wars I-III Campaigns -- 4. Eelam War IV: A Military Analysis -- 5. Postwar Sri Lanka: Reconciliation or Triumphalism? -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- Name Index -- Subject Index -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Sommario/riassunto

For twenty-six years, civil war tore Sri Lanka apart. Despite numerous peace talks, cease-fires, and external military and diplomatic pressure, war raged on between the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam and the Sinhala-dominated Sri Lankan government. Then, in 2009, the Sri Lankan military defeated the insurgents. The win was unequivocal, but the terms of victory were not. The first successful counterinsurgency campaign of the twenty-first century left the world with many questions. How did Sri Lanka ultimately win this seemingly intractable war? Will other nations facing insurgencies be able to adopt Sri Lanka's methods without encountering accusations of human rights violations? Ahmed S. Hashim-who teaches national security strategy and helped craft the U.S. counterinsurgency campaign in Iraq-investigates those questions in the first book to analyze the final stage



of the Sri Lankan civil war. When Counterinsurgency Wins traces the development of the counterinsurgency campaign in Sri Lanka from the early stages of the war to the later adaptations of the Sri Lankan government, leading up to the final campaign. The campaign itself is analyzed in terms of military strategy but is also given political and historical context-critical to comprehending the conditions that give rise to insurgent violence. The tactics of the Tamil Tigers have been emulated by militant groups in Palestine, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Somalia. Whether or not the Sri Lankan counterinsurgency campaign can or should be emulated in kind, the comprehensive, insightful coverage of When Counterinsurgency Wins holds vital lessons for strategists and students of security and defense.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910716800003321

Autore

Niles Alfred S (Alfred Salem), <1894-1975, >

Titolo

Bending tests of circular cylinders of corrugated aluminum-alloy sheet / / by Alfred S. Niles, John C. Buckwalter, and Warren D. Reed

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, [D.C.] : , : National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, , 1937

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (31 pages, 9 unnumbered pages) : illustrations

Collana

Technical note / National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics ; ; No. 595

Soggetti

Cylinders - Aerodynamics

Aluminum alloys

Bending

Sheet-metal - Formability

Deformations (Mechanics)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"March 1937."

No Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP) item number.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (page 26).



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Record Nr.

UNISA996308845303316

Autore

Volbers Jörg

Titolo

Selbsterkenntnis und Lebensform : Kritische Subjektivität nach Wittgenstein und Foucault / Jörg Volbers

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2015

ISBN

3-8394-0925-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (290)

Collana

Edition Moderne Postmoderne

Classificazione

CC 1100

Soggetti

Wittgenstein; Foucault; Philosophie; Ethik; Skeptizismus; Lebenskunst; Stanley Cavell; Sozialität; Sozialphilosophie; Philosophy; Ethics; Art of Living; Social Relations; Social Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Tedesco

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter    1  Inhalt    5  Einleitung    7  1. Problemexposition    17  2. Skeptizismus, Selbstverhältnis, Praxis    35  3. Subjektivität als Gewissheit    77  4. Formen der Übung    109  5. Philosophie als Praxis    145  6. Philosophie als Lebensform    203  7. Schlussbetrachtung    267  Siglen    275  Literatur    277  Danksagung    287  Backmatter    288

Sommario/riassunto

Die sprachliche und soziale Natur der Erkenntnis ist eine Grundeinsicht der Moderne. Doch welchen Spielraum lässt sie noch der Kritik, der distanzierten Prüfung der eigenen Sprache und Lebensform? Vor dem Hintergrund des Werkes Stanley Cavells fragt dieses Buch nach dem Verhältnis von Lebensform und Selbsterkenntnis. In ungewohnter Weise liest es Wittgenstein und Foucault als komplementäre Antwortstrategien auf dieses Grundproblem: Philosophie muss als eine »Arbeit an sich« (Wittgenstein), als körperliche »Selbsttechnik« (Foucault) verstanden werden. Nicht ethische Programmatik, so kann gezeigt werden, sondern systematische Konsequenz führt zu einer Engführung von Philosophie und Lebenspraxis.



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Record Nr.

UNISA996218054003316

Titolo

Cancer and metastasis reviews

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Dordrecht], : Springer Netherlands

ISSN

1573-7233

Disciplina

616.994

Soggetti

Metastasis

Métastases

Neoplasms

Medical Oncology

Neoplasm Metastasis

Periodicals.

Periodical

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico

Note generali

Refereed/Peer-reviewed