The art of military coercion  -  Rob de Wijk

why the West's military superiority scarcely matters

KORTE INHOUD

The United States spends more on its military than the rest of the world combined. And Western nations in general spend far more than developing nations around the globe. Yet when Western nations have found themselves in conflicts in recent decades, their performance has been mixed at best. In his fully updated new edition of The Art of Military Coercion, Rob de Wijk presents a theory on the use of force. He argues that the key is a failure to use force decisively, to properly understand the dynamics of con...
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2014 Uitgever: Amsterdam University Press 325 paginas Taal: Engels Grootte:  236x156x22 ISBN-10: 9089646744 ISBN-13: 9789089646743