How Democracies Lose Small Wars : State, Society, and the Failures of France in Algeria, Israel in Lebanon, and the United States in Vietnam

Name: How Democracies Lose Small Wars
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9780521804035
Price: 14750 KES
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ISBN: 9780521804035

by Gil Merom

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Format Hardback

ISBN-10 0521804035

ISBN-13 9780521804035

Publisher Cambridge University Press

Imprint Cambridge University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Aug 4th, 2003

Print length 310 Pages

Weight 618 grams

Dimensions 15.80 x 23.70 x 2.50 cms

Product Classification: General & world history Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000 International relations Warfare & defence Warfare and defence History General and world history

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In this 2003 book, Merom argues that modern democracies fail in insurgency wars because they are unable to find a winning balance. Small wars are lost at home when a critical minority mass shifts the center of gravity from the battlefield to the market place of ideas.

In this 2003 book, Gil Merom argues that modern democracies fail in insurgency wars because they are unable to find a winning balance between expedient and moral tolerance to the costs of war. Small wars, he argues, are lost at home when a critical minority mass shifts the center of gravity from the battlefield to the market place of ideas. Merom analyzes the role of brutality in counterinsurgency, the historical foundations of moral and expedient opposition to war, and the actions states traditionally took in order to preserve foreign policy autonomy. He then discusses the elements of the process that led to the failure of France in Algeria and Israel in Lebanon. In the conclusion, Merom considers the Vietnam War and the influence failed small wars had on Western war-making and military intervention.

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