LEADER 03216nam 22004693 450 001 9910163356103321 005 20230803215328.0 010 $a9781782897668 010 $a1782897666 035 $a(CKB)3810000000098045 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5626044 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5626044 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11642291 035 $a(OCoLC)1081001667 035 $a(Perlego)3018142 035 $a(EXLCZ)993810000000098045 100 $a20210901d2014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aAfghanistan And Beyond 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aChicago :$cTannenberg Publishing,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014. 215 $a1 online resource (34 pages) 327 $aIntro -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF THE AUTHOR -- EXECUTIVE SUMMARY -- AFGHANISTAN AND BEYOND: - REFLECTIONS ON THE FUTURE OF WARFARE -- The Initial Period of the Afghan War and Low-Intensity Conflict. -- Soviet Failure and the Lessons of That War. -- Lessons for the Wars of the 1990s. -- Operational and Strategic Lessons for the U.S. Forces. 330 8 $aMany military analysts believe or fear that the wars of the 1990s will be akin to the wars in the former Yugoslavia: small-scale but long-lasting and recurrent ethnic wars that also elude easy international resolution. There are consequently well-founded concerns about prospects for deployment of U.S. forces there in a unilateral or U.N. capacity. Some of the lessons of this kind of war were already apparent in the wars of the 1980s. They were known then as low-intensity conflicts and now as operations other than, or short of, war. This report focuses mainly on lessons from one of the most crucial of these wars, i.e., in Afghanistan as a result of the Soviet invasion in 1979, and attempts to draw lessons that are relevant for current wars, like those in Yugoslavia or the ex-Soviet Union. The purpose is to stimulate analysis and reflection on the strategic and operational, if not also tactical nature of these wars by both analysts and policymakers so that all interested groups can more easily come to terms with a form of warfare that promises to be both deeply destructive and deeply rooted in longstanding political and social antagonisms that cannot be easily or quickly resolved. Naturally some of the lessons drawn from Afghanistan and other wars may either only apply to Russian and Soviet forces or conversely may apply to war in general. But our primary intention is to make a contribution to the study of future wars particularly of the ethnic and small-scale type that promise to continue in many parts of the globe lest we devise better ways for averting and then resolving them. 606 $aLow-intensity conflicts (Military science) 606 $aDesert warfare 615 0$aLow-intensity conflicts (Military science) 615 0$aDesert warfare. 676 $a355.02 700 $aBlank$b Dr Stephen J$0848346 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910163356103321 996 $aAfghanistan And Beyond$91894765 997 $aUNINA