Dirty Wars: A Century of Counterinsurgency

by Simon Robbins and Frank Kitson

'Who is the enemy?' This is the question most asked in modern warfare; gone are the set-piece conventional battles of the past. Once seen as secondary to more traditional conflicts, irregular warfare (as modified and refashioned since the 1990s) now presents a major challenge to the state and the bureaucratic institutions which have dominated the twentieth century, and to the politicians and civil servants who formulate policy.Twenty-first-century...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0752464116
• ISBN13: 9780752464114
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: Spellmount Publishers
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.1" x 9.3"