How the Weak Win Wars
Cambridge University Press
0521839769 - How the Weak Win Wars - A Theory of Asymmetric Conflict - by Ivan Arreguín-Toft
Table of Contents
Contents
| List of figures | page x | |||||
| Preface | xi | |||||
| Acknowledgments | xiii | |||||
| List of abbreviations | xv | |||||
| 1 | Introduction | 1 | ||||
| 2 | Explaining asymmetric conflict outcomes | 23 | ||||
| 3 | Russia in the Caucasus: the Murid War, 1830–1859 | 48 | ||||
| 4 | Britain in Orange Free State and Transvaal: the South African War, 1899–1902 | 72 | ||||
| 5 | Italy in Ethiopia: the Italo-Ethiopian War, 1935–1940 | 109 | ||||
| 6 | The United States in Vietnam: the Vietnam War, 1965–1973 | 144 | ||||
| 7 | The USSR in Afghanistan: the Afghan Civil War, 1979–1989 | 169 | ||||
| 8 | Conclusion | 200 | ||||
| Appendix | 228 | |||||
| References | 235 | |||||
| Index | 243 | |||||
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