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200 10$aLosing Small Wars $eBritish Military Failure in the 9/11 Wars /$fFrank Ledwidge
205   $aSecond Edition
210  1$aNew Haven, CT :$cYale University Press,$d[2017]
210  4$d©2017
215   $a1 online resource (352 p.)
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327   $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tPreface to the Second Edition --$tAcknowledgements --$tIntroduction --$tChapter 1. ?Ridiculous Expectations? --$tChapter 2. ?Defeated, Pure and Simple? --$tChapter 3. ?Where?s Helmand?? --$tChapter 4. Uncashed Cheques: Th e Helmand Endgame and Libya --$tChapter 5. Dereliction of Duty: Th e Generals and Strategy --$tChapter 6. Cracking On and Optimism Bias: British Military Culture and Doctrine --$tChapter 7. ?Tactics Without Strategy?? The Counterinsurgency Conundrum --$tChapter 8. Managing Violence: The Question of Force --$tChapter 9. Strangers in Strange Lands --$tChapter 10. Fixing Intelligence --$tChapter 11. Thinking to Win --$tConclusion --$tAbbreviations and Acronyms --$tNotes --$tSelect Bibliography --$tIndex
330   $aThis new edition of Frank Ledwidge?s eye-opening analysis of British involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan unpicks the causes and enormous costs of military failure. Updated throughout, and with fresh chapters assessing and enumerating the overall military performance since 2011?including Libya, ISIS, and the Chilcot findings?Ledwidge shows how lessons continue to go unlearned. ?A brave and important book; essential reading for anyone wanting insights into the dysfunction within the British military today, and the consequences this has on the lives of innocent civilians caught up in war.??Times Literary Supplement
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