02616cam a2200409 a 4500 3877823 BD-DhUL 20160601195101.0 021209s2003 xxk b 001 0 eng 2002041490 GBA3V4496 bnb 9780521804035 (hbk.) 0521804035 : �47.50 0521008778 (pbk.) : �16.95 BD-DhUL BD-DhUL BD-DhUL ukblsr e-fr--- a-is--- n-us--- U241 .M47 2003 355.02 MEH Merom, Gil, 1956- How democracies lose small wars : state, society, and the failures of France in Algeria, Israel in Lebanon, and the United States in Vietnam / Gil Merom. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, c2003. xiii, 295 p. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-276) and index. 1. 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. 13. 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. Low intensity conflicts (Military science) France. Low intensity conflicts (Military science) United States. Low intensity conflicts (Military science) Israel. Military doctrine France. Military doctrine United States. Military doctrine Israel. Counterinsurgency. Table of contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/cam031/2002041490.html Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/cam031/2002041490.html ddc BK 75118 75118 0 0 ddc 0 355_020000000000000_MEH 0 NFIC 381524 DUL DUL GEN 2010-12-07 355.02 MEH 454648 2019-10-29 2019-10-29 BK