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Article: Strategic interactions: Edward Bradfield reviews how the weak win wars.
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- Harvard International Review
- Article date:
- June 22, 2005
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With the US military currently engaged in armed conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan, Ivan Arreguin-Toft's How the Weak Win Wars is a timely contribution to the ongoing debate over US defense strategy in the post-September 11 security environment. The book is comprised of three major sections. First, Arreguin-Toft provides a well-structured discussion of existing theories in the literature on how weaker actors have won wars against substantially more powerful states and articulates his own hypothesis to explain this phenomenon, which he calls "strategic interaction theory." Second, he tests multiple hypotheses in five separate case studies dating from the early 19th century ...
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