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A revolution in military adaptation : the US Army in the Iraq War /
During the early years of the Iraq War, the US Army was unable to translate initial combat success into strategic and political victory. Iraq plunged into a complex insurgency, and defeating this insurgency required beating highly adaptive foes. A competition between the hierarchical and vertically...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Washington, D.C. :
Georgetown University Press,
2011.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Political Science and Policy Studies. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | During the early years of the Iraq War, the US Army was unable to translate initial combat success into strategic and political victory. Iraq plunged into a complex insurgency, and defeating this insurgency required beating highly adaptive foes. A competition between the hierarchical and vertically integrated army and networked and horizontally integrated insurgents ensued. The latter could quickly adapt and conduct networked operations in a decentralized fashion; the former was predisposed to fighting via prescriptive plans under a centralized command and control. To achieve success, the US A. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xvi, 206 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781589018006 1589018001 1589017838 9781589017832 |