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

by David Kilcullen

Book Overview

A counterintuitive examination into how, and what, opponents of the West have learned during the last quarter-century of conflict.

Just two decades ago, observers spoke of the US as a "hyperpower"--a nation with more relative power than any empire in history. Yet as early as 1993, CIA director James Woolsey pointed out that although Western powers had "slain a large dragon" by defeating the Soviet Union, they now faced a "bewildering...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019026568X
• ISBN13: 9780190265687
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.4"