03506nam 2200541 450 991081248900332120230808192252.00-19-060055-1(CKB)3710000000622984(EBL)4545364(MiAaPQ)EBC4545364(Au-PeEL)EBL4545364(CaPaEBR)ebr11237326(OCoLC)953456051(EXLCZ)99371000000062298420160810h20162016 uy 0engur|n|---|||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierBlood year the unraveling of western counterterrorism /David KilcullenNew York, New York :Oxford University Press,2016.©20161 online resource (307 p.)Includes index.0-19-060054-3 Cover; BLOOD YEAR: The Unraveling of Western Counterterroism; COPYRIGHT; DEDICATION; CONTENTS; PREFACE; NOTE ON SOURCES; MAP; 1: DEBACLE; United Arab Emirates, November 2014; 2: DISAGGREGATION; Canberra and Washington D.C., 2004-5; 3: ABYSS; Iraq and Afghanistan, 2005-6; 4: WATERFALL; Baghdad and the Belts, 2007; 5: CROCODILE; Iraq after the Surge; 6: TSUNAMI; Pakistan, Iraq and the Greater Middle East, 2011-14; 7: REBIRTH; Iraq, Libya and Syria, 2011-14; 8: COLLAPSE; The Fall of Maliki's Iraq; 9: RETRIBUTION; War with the Caliphate, 2014-15; 10: ROLLBACK?; Iraq and Syria, Winter 2014-1511: INTERNATIONALEThe Atomized Threat, 2014-15; 12: WILAYAT; ISIS Overseas Territories, 2015; 13: KHILAFAH; Tikrit, Ramadi and Palmyra, March-May 2015; 14: TRANSFORMATION; Syria and Iraq, Summer 2015; 15: SPILLOVER; Europe and Afghanistan, Autumn 2015; 16: MASKIROVKA; Enter the Russians; 17: AGE OF CONFLICT; Rethinking Counterterrorism; EPILOGUE; Insights From the Forever War; Don't confuse bad management with destiny; Never think: "This is as bad as it gets"; Strategy, without resources and sequencing, is fantasy; Battlefield success is not victory; You can't fight without fighting; NOTESPREFACE1. DEBACLE; 2. DISAGGREGATION; 3. ABYSS; 4. WATERFALL; 5. CROCODILE; 6. TSUNAMI; 7. REBIRTH; 8. COLLAPSE; 9. RETRIBUTION; 10. ROLLBACK?; 11. INTERNATIONALE; 12. WILAYAT; 13. KHILAFAH; 14. TRANSFORMATION; 15. SPILLOVER; 16. MASKIROVKA; 17. AGE OF CONFLICT; EPILOGUE; INDEXIn Blood Year, David Kilcullen provides a wide-angle view of the current situation in the Middle East and analyzes how America and the West ended up in such dire circumstances. Focusing on the events of 2014--a year of massacres and beheadings, fallen cities and collapsing states--as a potential turning point in modern world history, this is an essential read for anyone interested in understanding not only why the region that the U.S. invaded a dozen years ago has collapsed into utter chaos, but also what it can do to alleviate the grim situation.TerrorismIslamic countriesPolitics and government21st centuryMiddle EastHistory21st centuryUnited StatesMilitary policyIslamic countriesfastMiddle EastfastUnited StatesfastTerrorism.363.325Kilcullen David1163907MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910812489003321Blood year4021683UNINA