The dragons and the snakes: how the rest learned to fight the West

This text applies concepts from evolutionary science and military innovation to explore how state and nonstate adversaries of the Western powers have learned to defeat (or render irrelevant) the model of high-tech, expensive, precision warfare pioneered by the United States in 1991 and globally domi...

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Main Author: Kilcullen, David 1967- (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Oxford University Press [2020]
In:Year: 2020
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