Strategic interactions: Edward Bradfield reviews how the weak win wars.

From: Harvard International Review | Date: June 22, 2005| Author: Bradfield, Edward | Copyright information

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...

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