War from the Ground Up Twenty-First Century Combat As Politics

Name: War from the Ground Up Twenty-First Century Combat As Politics
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ISBN: 9780199327881

ISBN-10: 0199327882

ISBN-13: 9780199327881

Edition: 2013

Authors: Emile Simpson

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As a British infantry officer in the Royal Gurkha Rifles Emile Simpson completed three tours of Southern Afghanistan. Drawing on that experience, and on a range of little-known case studies ranging from Nepal to Borneo, War From The Ground Up offers a distinctive perspective on contemporary armed conflict: while most accounts of war look down at the battlefield from an academic perspective, or across it as a personal narrative, the author looks up from the battlefield to consider the concepts that put him there, and how they played out on the ground. Simpson argues that in the Afghan conflict, and in contemporary conflicts more generally, liberal powers and their armed forces have blurred…

Book details

List price: $32.50
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/20/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Size: 8.58" wide x 5.91" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English