The dragons and the snakes : how the rest learned to fight the west / David Kilcullen.
In The Dragons and the Snakes, David Kilcullen asks what the opponents of the West have learned in the past quarter-century and how they have evolved. He shows how Russia, China, Iran and North Korea developed new tactics by copying terrorists and guerrillas, and how guerrilla groups have been able...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
2020.
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| Online Access: | Oxford Scholarship Online |
| Summary: | In The Dragons and the Snakes, David Kilcullen asks what the opponents of the West have learned in the past quarter-century and how they have evolved. He shows how Russia, China, Iran and North Korea developed new tactics by copying terrorists and guerrillas, and how guerrilla groups have been able to access new technologies that allowed them to take on the states that oppose them. More broadly, Kilcullen explains how evolution happens in combat, how states and non-state groups copy each other, how our enemies have sought to exploit our tunnel-vision on terrorism since 9/11, and how we can res. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (325 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0190265698 0190265701 0190932783 9780190265687 9780190265694 9780190265700 9780190932787 |