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How Democracies Lose Small Wars : State, Society, and the Failures of France in Algeria, Israel in Lebanon, and the United States in Vietnam
How Democracies Lose Small Wars State Society and the Failures of France in Algeria Israel in Lebanon and the United States in Vietnam
Author: Gil Merom
Gil Merom argues that modern democracies fail in insurgency wars because they are unable to find a winning balance between expedient and moral tolerance for the costs of war. Small wars are lost at home when a critical minority shifts the balancing element from the battlefield to the marketplace of ideas. This minority, representing the educated...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780521804035
ISBN-10: 0521804035
Publication Date: 8/4/2003
Pages: 310
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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