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On the ground in Afghanistan : counterinsurgency in practice
Published: Marine Corps University Press, 2012Subjects: “…Counterinsurgency Afghanistan Case studies.…”Description: xi, 186 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 23 cm.
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On the ground in Afghanistan : counterinsurgency in practice
Published: Marine Corps University Press, 2012Subjects: “…Counterinsurgency Afghanistan Case studies.…”Description: 1 online resource (xi, 186 pages) : color illustrations, color maps.
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Russia in Afghanistan and Chechnya military strategic culture and the paradoxes of asymmetric conflict
Published: Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, 2003Subjects: Get full text
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A new approach to understanding Afghanistan's transition : comparisons with international postconflict experience
Published: United States Institute of Peace, 2013Contents: “…Conceptual and methodological approach -- Comparisons of transitions -- Afghanistan's current situation in international perspective -- Themes and lessons for Afghanistan's transition -- Broader observations and areas for further research.…”Description: 1 online resource (30 pages) : color illustrations.
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The strategic lessons unlearned from Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan : why the Afghan National Security Forces will not hold, and the implications for the U.S. Army in Afghanistan
Published: Strategic Studies Institute and U.S. Army War College Press, 2015Subjects: “…Afghanistan. National Security Forces Forecasting.…”Description: 1 online resource (x, 222 pages) : illustrations, maps (some color)
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Planning to fail : the US wars in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan
Published: Oxford University Press, 2019Oxford scholarship online - Click here for accessDescription: 1 online resource.
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Convoy ambush case studies Second edition.
Published: US Army Transportation School, 2013Contents: Get full textDescription: 1 online resource (2 volumes) : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color)
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American national security policy : authorities, institutions, and cases
Published: Rowman & Littlefield, 2017Contents: “…A touch of theory -- A practitioners guide to realism -- The practitioners' textbook -- Legal authorities -- National security organizations -- The National Security Council process -- Defense planning systems -- The cases -- Panama: national security policy from below -- "I love it when a plan comes together" -- Adventures in peace enforcement: the Somalia tragedy -- The "intervasion" of haiti -- "Some damned foolish thing in the Balkans" -- 9/11 and the invasion of Afghanistan -- Iraq: snatching defeat from the jaws of victory and victory from the jaws of defeat -- The Afghanistan surge: Obama's finest hour? …”Description: xvi, 267 pages ; 24 cm.
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Thieves of state : why corruption threatens global security First edition.
Published: W.W. Norton & Company, 2015Contents: “…"If I see somebody planting an IED ..." : Afghanistan, 2009 -- "Lord King, how I wish that you were wise" : mirrors for princes, ca. 700-1516 -- Hearing the people's complaints : Kandahar to Kabul, 2001-2009 -- Nonkinetic targeting : Kabul, 2009 -- Vertically integrated criminal syndicates : Kabul, Garmisch, 2009-2010 -- Revolt against kleptocracy : the Arab spring : Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, 2011 -- Variation 1: The (overlooked) military-kleptocratic complex : Egypt, ca. 2010 -- Variation 2: The bureaucratic kleptocracy : Tunisia, ca. 2010 -- Variation 3: The post-Soviet kleptocratic autocracy : Uzbekistan, ca. 2013 -- Variation 4: The resource kleptocracy : Nigeria, ca. 2014 -- Up a level : Afghanistan and Washington, June 2010-January 2011 -- Forging an appeal on Earth : The Netherlands, England, America, ca. 1560-1787 -- Violent extremists -- Remedies -- Epilogue: Self-reflection -- Appendix.…”Description: x, 262 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
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Patterns of influence : strategic culture case studies and conclusions First edition.
Published: MCUP, Marine Corps University Press, 2020Contents: “…A strategic culture framework for practitioners / by Blagovest Tashev -- China's strategic culture and its menu of strategic options / by Christopher D. Yung -- Does Afghanistan have a "strategic culture"? / by Vern Liebl -- Brazilian strategic culture and the Amazon / by Denise Slater -- A new state with a nascent strategic culture : international and domestic influences in Kosovo / by George Bogden.…”Description: ix, 225 pages : color illustration, color maps ; 20 cm.
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Patterns of influence : strategic culture case studies and conclusions First edition.
Published: MCUP, Marine Corps University Press, 2020Contents: “…A strategic culture framework for practitioners / by Blagovest Tashev -- China's strategic culture and its menu of strategic options / by Christopher D. Yung -- Does Afghanistan have a "strategic culture"? / by Vern Liebl -- Brazilian strategic culture and the Amazon / by Denise Slater -- A new state with a nascent strategic culture : international and domestic influences in Kosovo / by George Bogden.…”Description: 1 online resource (ix, 225 pages) : color illustration, color maps.
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In contact! case studies from the long war
Published: Combat Studies Institute Press : For sale by the Supt. of Docs, U.S. G.P.O., 2006Contents: “…Kennedy -- Punishment in Syahcow, Afghanistan, 25 July 2005 / by Peter V. Boisson -- Brave rifles at Tall 'Afar September 2005 / by Ricardo A. …”Description: volumes <1> : digital, PDF file.
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Case studies in emergency medicine : a collection of memorable clinically relevant cases with clinical pearls
Published: Springer, 2023Contents: “…Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Editor and Contributors -- 1 Forearm Fracture in Afghanistan -- 1.1 Conclusion -- References -- 2 24-Year-Old in a River -- 2.1 Conclusion -- References -- 3 Serious Traffic Accident in Fog -- 3.1 Conclusion -- References -- 4 80-Year-Old Patient with Devastating Chest Pain -- 4.1 Conclusion -- References -- 5 Unconscious in Industrial Area -- 5.1 Conclusion -- References -- 6 The Final Exam -- 6.1 Conclusion -- References -- 7 Injuries from Heavy Machinery -- 7.1 Conclusion -- References -- 8 Blood Pressure Crisis -- 8.1 Conclusion -- References.…”Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 252 pages) : illustrations.
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Cases in international relations : principles and applications Ninth edition.
Published: Rowman & Littlefield, 2022Contents: “…-- Rising and declining powers : Iran and Russia -- Internationalism and unilateralism : evaluating the fate of NATO -- Asymmetrical warfare : the forever war in Afghanistan -- International meddling and interference : Russia in U.S. elections, the United States in Guatemala -- Nuclear proliferation : Israel, North Korea, and Iran -- Power changes and status : superpowers, pivotal states and the Middle East conflict -- Cyberwar and cybersecurity : may the force be with whom? …”Description: vii, 269 pages ; 23 cm.
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Civil action and the dynamics of violence
Published: Oxford University Press, 2019Oxford scholarship online - Click here for accessDescription: 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white).
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Civil society & peacebuilding : a critical assessment
Published: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2010Contents: “…Guatemala: a dependent and fragmented civil society / Sabine Kurtenbach -- Northern Ireland: civil society and the slow building of peace / Roberto Belloni -- Bosnia-Herzegovina: civil society in a semiprotectorate / Roberto Belloni and Bruce Hemmer -- Turkey: the Kurdish question and the coercive state / Ayşe Betül Çelik -- Cyprus: a divided civil society in stalemate / Esra Çuhadar and Andreas Kotelis -- Israel and Palestine: civil societies in despair / Esra Çuhadar and Sari Hanafi -- Afghanistan: civil society between modernity and tradition / Kaja Borchgrevink and Kristian Berg Harpviken -- Nepal: from conflict to consolidating a fragile peace / Rhoderick Chalmers -- Sri Lanka: peace activists and nationalists / Camilla Orjuela -- Somalia: civil society in a collapsed state / Ken Menkhaus ... …”Description: ix, 511 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
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Critical issues in homeland security : a casebook
Published: Westview Press, 2014Contents: “…Intelligence; Case 4.1 The Attack on Mumbai, India; Case 4.2 Using a Principal Agent in Intelligence Collection in Afghanistan; 5. Critical Infrastructure Protection; Case 5.1 Catastrophic Pendemic: Cases in Ethical Decision-Making; Case 5.2 The Impact of Cyber-Security on Critical Infrastructure Protection: The Advanced Persistent Threat; 6. …”Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 368 pages .)
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Mountain warfare and other lofty problems : foreign ideas on high-altitude combat
Published: Foreign Military Studies Office, 2011Contents: “…Moving artillery forward: a concept for the fight in Afghanistan / Joseph A. Jackson --Ŝmall Arms Fire. The right way to shoot: how to select firing positions and firing ready positions in mountainous conditions / Michael Panov -- It is difficult -- but possible and necessary -- to master the skills and techniques of shooting in mountains / Michael Panov -- Shelter. …”Description: xii, 211 pages : illustrations, maps (1 color)
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Voices of trauma : treating psychological trauma across cultures
Published: Springer, 2007Contents: “…Wilson -- Fourteen djinns migrate across the ocean / Jaswant Guzder -- Culturally relevant meanings and their implications on therapy for traumatic grief : lessons learned from a Chinese female client and her fortune-teller / Catherine So-kum Tang -- The story of Alex, an Armenian man who encounters the evil every day / Boris Drožđek -- Loss, reconnection and reconstruction : a former child soldier's returning to Cambodia / Edvard Hauff -- Giving voice to silence : silence as coping strategy of refugee women from South Sudan who experienced sexual violence in the context of war / Marian Tankink & Annemiek Richters -- Mobilizing social and symbolic resources in transcultural therapies with refugees and asylum seekers : the story of Mister Diallo / Gesine Sturm, Thierry Baubet & Marie Rose Moro -- Lost in the desert--from despair to meaningful existence : a Chechen family crossing borders / Nino Makhashvili & Lela Tsiskarishvili -- Survival as subversion : when youth resistance strategies challenge tradition, religion, and political correctness / Cécile Rousseau & Déogratias Bagilishya -- I think he is still inside me : mother/child psychotherapy with a Kosovar family / Elizabeth Batista Pinto Wiese -- Lost in limbo : cultural dimensions in psychotherapy and supervision with a temporary protection visa holder from Afghanistan / Robin Bowles & Nooria Mehrabi -- Latino New Yorkers and the crash of Flight 587 : effects of trauma on the bicultural self / David C. …”Description: 1 online resource (xxii, 395 pages) : illustrations.
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Killing in a gray area between humanitarian law and human rights : how can the national police of Colombia overcome the uncertainty of which branch of international law to apply?
Published: Springer, 2010SpringerLink - Click here for accessDescription: 1 online resource (xviii, 184 pages).
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