Losing small wars : British military failure in Iraq and Afghanstan /
Partly on the strength of their apparent success in insurgencies such as Malaya and Northern Ireland, the British armed forces have long been perceived as world class, if not world beating. However, their recent performance in Iraq and Afghanistan is widely seen as-at best-disappointing; under Briti...
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
©2011.
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Table of Contents:
- Ridiculous expectations
- Defeated, pure and simple
- Where's Helmand?
- A bleeding ulcer
- Dereliction of duty : the generals and strategy
- Cracking on: British military culture and doctrine
- Tactics without strategy? The counterinsurgency conundrum
- Doing no harm? The question of force
- Civvies
- Bad influences
- Opening networks.