As the United States enters into a new form of warfare a primary battlegroundwill be in the Third World. Critical to understanding the challenges ahead isHarkav... » 

As the United States enters into a new form of warfare a primary battlegroundwill be in the Third World. Critical to understanding the challenges ahead isHarkavy and Neumans unparalleled examination of the numerous wars in the ThirdWorld from interventions including the Soviet experience in Afghanistan andthat of the United States in Kosovo to allout conventional interstate warssuch as the serial ArabIsraeli and IndiaPakistan battles to various types oflowintensity conflict such as Marxist revolutionary and ethnoreligious warstoday. The authors describe and illustrate how wars have been fought and howthey are different or similar to war as the West knows it. Designed to help thereader better understand these conflicts by focusing on the how not the whyof warfare the book examines crucial dimension of contemporary armed conflictthe strategies operations tactics doctrines and weapons of conventional andlowintensity war military geography the cultural underpinnings of strategiesand tactics arms resupply security assistance and foreign intervention. «