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100 1 _aMerom, Gil,
_d1956-
245 1 0 _aHow democracies lose small wars :
_bstate, society, and the failures of France in Algeria, Israel in Lebanon, and the United States in Vietnam /
_cGil Merom.
260 _aCambridge :
_bCambridge University Press,
_cc2003.
300 _axiii, 295 p. ;
_c24 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 261-276) and index.
505 0 _a1. Introduction -- 2. Military Superiority and Victory in Small Wars: Historical Observations -- 3. The Structural Origins of Defiance: The Middle-Class, The Marketplace of Ideas, and the Normative Gap -- 4. The Structural Origins of Tenacity: National Alignment and Compartmentalization -- 5. The French War in Algeria: A Strategic, Political, and Economic Overview -- 6. French Instrumental Dependence and Its Consequences -- 7. The Development of a Normative Difference in France, and Its Consequences -- 8. The French Struggle to Contain the Growth of the Normative Gap and the Rise of the "Democratic Agenda" -- 9. Political Relevance and Its Consequences in France -- 10. The Israeli War in Lebanon: A Strategic, Political, and Economic Overview -- 11. Israeli Instrumental Dependence and Its Consequences -- 12. The Development of a Normative Difference in Israel, and Its Consequences.
505 8 _a13. The Israeli Struggle to Contain the Growth of the Normative Gap and the Rise of the "Democratic Agenda" -- 14. Political Relevance and Its Consequences in Israel -- 15. Conclusion.
650 0 _aLow intensity conflicts (Military science)
_zFrance.
650 0 _aLow intensity conflicts (Military science)
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aLow intensity conflicts (Military science)
_zIsrael.
650 0 _aMilitary doctrine
_zFrance.
650 0 _aMilitary doctrine
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aMilitary doctrine
_zIsrael.
650 0 _aCounterinsurgency.
856 4 1 _3Table of contents
_uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/cam031/2002041490.html
856 4 2 _3Publisher description
_uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/cam031/2002041490.html
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