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The Dragons and the Snakes How the Rest Learned to Fight the West

Paperback • 2022 • English

The Dragons and the Snakes How the Rest Learned to Fight the West

By David Kilcullen

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About the book

In 1993, a newly-appointed CIA director warned that Western powers might have 'slain a large dragon' with the fall of the USSR, but now faced a 'bewildering variety of poisonous snakes'. Since then, both dragons (state enemies like Russia and China) and snakes (terrorist and guerrilla organisations) have watched the US struggle in Iraq and Afghanistan, and mastered new methods in response: hybrid and urban warfare, political manipulation, and harnessing digital technology.Leading soldier-scholar...Show more

Theory of warfare and military science
Military administration
Peacekeeping operations

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ISBN

9781787387218

Publisher

Hurst

Published year

2022

Language

English

Original title

The Dragons and the Snakes How the Rest Learned to Fight the West

Format

Paperback

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