Beating Goliath Why Insurgencies Win

Name: Beating Goliath Why Insurgencies Win
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ISBN: 9781597970907

ISBN-10: 1597970905

ISBN-13: 9781597970907

Edition: 2007

Authors: Jeffrey Record

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Beating Goliath examines the phenomenon of victories by the weak over the strong-more specifically, insurgencies that succeeded against great powers. Jeffrey Record reviews eleven insurgent wars from 1775 to the present and determines why the seemingly weaker side won. He concludes that external assistance correlates more consistently with insurgent success than any other explanation. He does not disparage the critical importance of will, strategy, and strong-side regime type or suggest that external assistance guarantees success. Indeed, in all cases, some combination of these factors is usually present. But Record finds few if any cases of unassisted insurgent victories except against…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Potomac Books, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/1/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 192
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

Jeffrey Record is a professor of strategy at the Air War College in Montgomery, Alabama. He served in Vietnam as a civilian pacification adviser and received his doctorate from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. He lives in Atlanta, Georgia.



Introduction



Explaining Goliath Defeats: Will, Strategy, and Type of Government



The Role of External Assistance



The Iraqi Insurgency: Vietnam Perspectives



The American Way: War Without Politics



The American Way: Search and Destroy



Conclusion


Notes


Glossary


Bibliography


Index


About the Author