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Overview
Retired General Sir Michael Rose, a former United Nations commander and counter-insurgency expert, examines two wars, more than 200 years apart, to demonstrate the unsettling parallels between two small groups of determined insurgents who were determined to defeat a superpower. While acknowledging the obvious differences between the American Revolution and the current situation in Iraq, there are a number of striking military similarities, most notably the failure of the British in 1783 and the Americans today to resolve the dilemma of counter-insurgency warfare: how to isolate and defeat the enemy without alienating the local population.
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- ISBN-13: 9781605980355
- ISBN-10: 1605980358
- Publisher: Pegasus Books
- Publish Date: April 2009
- Dimensions: 8.03 x 5.19 x 0.63 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.56 pounds
- Page Count: 236
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