The dragons and the snakes : how the rest learned to fight the West / David Kilcullen.

By: Kilcullen, David [author.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: Brunswick, Victoria : Scribe, 2020Copyright date: ©2020Description: 325 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmContent type: still image | cartographic image | text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781925849158; 1925849155Subject(s): Military planning -- United States -- History -- 21st century | Diplomatic relations | International relations | International relations | United States -- Military policy | United States -- Politics and government -- 2017- | Western countries | Western countries -- Foreign relationsDDC classification: 327 | 355.2/1
Contents:
Introduction -- Note on terminology -- The dragon and the snakes -- Adaptive enemies -- Woolsey's snakes -- Liminal warfare -- Conceptual envelopment -- Ebb tide of the West -- Epilogue: A better peace?
Summary: In The Dragons and the Snakes, the eminent soldier-scholar David Kilcullen asks how this has come to pass, and what opponents of the West have learned during the last quarter-century of conflict. Applying a combination of evolutionary theory and detailed field observation, he explains what happened to the 'snakes'-non-state threats, including terrorists and guerrillas - and the 'dragons'-state-based competitors such as Russia and China. He explores how enemies learn under conditions of conflict, and examines how Western dominance over a very particular, narrowly defined form of warfare since the Cold War has created a fitness landscape that forces adversaries to adapt in ways that present serious new challenges to America and its allies.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Note on terminology -- The dragon and the snakes -- Adaptive enemies -- Woolsey's snakes -- Liminal warfare -- Conceptual envelopment -- Ebb tide of the West -- Epilogue: A better peace?

In The Dragons and the Snakes, the eminent soldier-scholar David Kilcullen asks how this has come to pass, and what opponents of the West have learned during the last quarter-century of conflict. Applying a combination of evolutionary theory and detailed field observation, he explains what happened to the 'snakes'-non-state threats, including terrorists and guerrillas - and the 'dragons'-state-based competitors such as Russia and China. He explores how enemies learn under conditions of conflict, and examines how Western dominance over a very particular, narrowly defined form of warfare since the Cold War has created a fitness landscape that forces adversaries to adapt in ways that present serious new challenges to America and its allies.

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