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9780415459495

Special Operations and Strategy: From World War II to the War on Terrorism

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415459495

  • ISBN10:

    0415459494

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Nonspecific Binding
  • Copyright: 2007-12-04
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

Fed by layers of official secrecy, personal memoirs of operators, and hundreds of units and campaign histories, the mystique surrounding special operations forces has been enhanced by their success in Afghanistan and Iraq. Despite this wealth of literature special operations forces have been prone to misuse or misapplication: in particular how strategic operations achieve their strategic effects has not been well understood. This book examines how special operations, in conjunction with more conventional military actions, can achieve and sustain strategic effect(s) over time, and argues that the root of their effectiveness lies in understanding the relationship that exists between moral and material attrition at the strategic level through an examination of strategic theory and case studies.

Author Biography

James D. Kiras is assistant professor at the School of Advanced Air and Space Studies, Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama

Table of Contents

List of illustrationsp. x
Forewordp. xi
Prefacep. xiii
Acknowledgmentsp. xiv
List of abbreviationsp. xvi
Special operations and great raidsp. 1
"Seeing 'black lights' before sinking into oblivion": theories of strategic paralysisp. 16
"A dark picture of destruction": special operations, the persistence of ideas, and dambustingp. 35
Death by a thousand cuts: special operations, attrition, and the nature of warfarep. 58
"Looting a burning house": the SAS in the campaign of attrition in Normandy, 1944p. 83
Conclusion: special operations and the nature of strategyp. 112
Notesp. 118
Bibliographyp. 195
Indexp. 224
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