Adapting to Win: How Insurgents Fight and Defeat Foreign States in War

by Noriyuki Katagiri

When insurgent groups challenge powerful states, defeat is not always inevitable. Increasingly, guerrilla forces have overcome enormous disadvantages and succeeded in extending the period of violent conflict, raising the costs of war, and occasionally winning. Noriyuki Katagiri investigates the circumstances and tactics that allow some insurgencies to succeed in wars against foreign governments while others fail.

Adapting to Win examines...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812246411
• ISBN13: 9780812246414
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.1"