دانلود کتاب Contemporary Military Strategy and the Global War on Terror: US and UK Armed Forces in Afghanistan and Iraq 2001–2012

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Cover\nHalfTitle\nTitle\nCopyright\nDedication\nContents\nPreface\nAcknowledgments\nAbbreviations\nCHAPTER ONE Contemporary military strategy\n The [Greek] idea of strategy\n Classical conceptions of strategy\n Interstate conventional warfare and the legacy of World War II\n Nuclear strategy: Deterrence vs warfighting\n Limited war\n War in the Digital Age and the revolution in military affairs\n Peering through the dust of 9/11\n Questions\nCHAPTER TWO The Afghan conundrum\n Terrorism as an act of war\n An asymmetric response to an asymmetric attack\n A mechanism to respond: Central Command\n Civil-military relations and Operation Enduring Freedom\n Civilian elites and US military strategy\n Operational consequences for military planning\n Military options and thinking in CENTCOM\n Questions\nCHAPTER THREE Operation Enduring Freedom\n The Afghan puzzle\n Exploring the strategic paralysis explanation\n Dysfunctional political elite mechanisms\n The CIA leads the way\n The CIA’s strategy in Afghanistan\n Crisis of US military command and strategy\n Strategic Deadlock October 2001\n Questions\nCHAPTER FOUR US/UK “strategy” in Afghanistan: The first five years (2001–2006)\n The absence of coalition grand strategy\n The American way of planning war\n The Afghan model as deus ex machina\n Tora Bora\n The price of the Afghan model and the Iraq distraction\n The British approach in Afghanistan\n ISAF–NATO\n The Helmand Mission in 2006\n Questions\nCHAPTER FIVE The Iraq puzzle\n Ideational origins of the war\n US/UK civil-military relations and planning for the Iraq War\n Social systems, capitalism, and war in the twenty-first century\n The Rumsfeld factor, war planning, and Operation Iraqi Freedom\n Tinkering with the TPFDL\n Questions\nCHAPTER SIX Operation Iraqi Freedom\n The challenges of Iraq\n Transformational warfare in the Iraqi landscape?\n US military culture as an offsetting trend\n An unusual way to start a war\n Iraqi “shocks” to the Rumsfeld/Franks’ concept of war\n The pause\n Air operations\n British operations from Umm Qasr to Basra City\n Questions\nCHAPTER SEVEN US/UK strategy in Iraq: The first five years (2003–2008)\n The final assault on Baghdad\n The absence of a grand strategy\n The power vacuum\n The dominant “mindset” in Washington\n The insurgency\n Five stages of US strategy in Iraq\n The British in Basra\n Questions\nCHAPTER EIGHT Contemporary military strategy and the Global War on Terror\n Operation Enduring Freedom\n Operation Iraqi Freedom\n Contemporary military strategy in the twenty-first century\n Questions\nSelected bibliography\nIndex