Blood year : the unraveling of western counterterrorism / / David Kilcullen

• Autore: Kilcullen David
• Pubblicazione: New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2016; ©2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (307 p.)
• Disciplina: 363.325
• Soggetto topico: Terrorism
• Soggetto geografico: Islamic countries Politics and government 21st century; Middle East History 21st century; United States Military policy; Islamic countries; Middle East; United States
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 2014-15 ; 11: 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; NOTES ; PREFACE1. 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; INDEX
• Sommario/riassunto: In 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Blood year
• ISBN: 0-19-060055-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910812489003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II