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When Counterinsurgency Wins
Sri Lanka's Defeat of the Tamil Tigers
By: Ahmed S. Hashim
eBook | 28 May 2013
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For twenty-six years, civil war tore Sri Lanka apart. Despite numerous peace talks, cease-fires, and external military and diplomatic pressure, war raged on between the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam and the Sinhala-dominated Sri Lankan government. Then, in 2009, the Sri Lankan military defeated the insurgents. The win was unequivocal, but the terms of victory were not. The first successful counterinsurgency campaign of the twenty-first century left the world with many questions. How did Sri Lanka ultimately win this seemingly intractable war? Will other nations facing insurgencies be able to adopt Sri Lanka's methods without encountering accusations of human rights violations?
Ahmed S. Hashim—who teaches national security strategy and helped craft the U.S. counterinsurgency campaign in Iraq—investigates those questions in the first book to analyze the final stage of the Sri Lankan civil war. When Counterinsurgency Wins traces the development of the counterinsurgency campaign in Sri Lanka from the early stages of the war to the later adaptations of the Sri Lankan government, leading up to the final campaign. The campaign itself is analyzed in terms of military strategy but is also given political and historical context—critical to comprehending the conditions that give rise to insurgent violence.
The tactics of the Tamil Tigers have been emulated by militant groups in Palestine, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Somalia. Whether or not the Sri Lankan counterinsurgency campaign can or should be emulated in kind, the comprehensive, insightful coverage of When Counterinsurgency Wins holds vital lessons for strategists and students of security and defense.
Industry Reviews
"An in-depth, timely, and nuanced study of the campaign conducted by the Tamil Tigers and the Sri Lankan authorities. This hugely important book offers insights into the nature of counterinsurgency campaigns and provides a contemporary check-and-balance with the emergent COIN doctrine practiced in Afghanistan."—Dave Sloggett, University of Reading
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Introduction
Chapter 1. The Sri Lankan War in Context
Chapter 2. Background to War: State Formation and Identities in Conflict
Chapter 3. The Eelam War I-III Campaigns
Chapter 4. Eelam War IV: A Military Analysis
Chapter 5. Postwar Sri Lanka: Reconciliation or Triumphalism?
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
ISBN: 9780812206487
ISBN-10: 0812206487
Published: 28th May 2013
Format: ePUB
Language: English
Number of Pages: 280
Audience: College, Tertiary and University
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
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