Home › Books › The Dragons and the Snakes

The Dragons and the Snakes

লেখক / Author: David Kilcullen

Premium Hardcover: ৳370 | Premium Paperback: ৳270

Buy The Dragons and the Snakes in Bangladesh at Booksferi.Com. Price ৳270 (BDT). Home delivery all over Bangladesh, Cash on Delivery.

Just a few years ago, people spoke of the US as a hyperpower-a titan stalking the world stage with more relative power than any empire in history. Yet as early as 1993, newly-appointed CIA director James Woolsey pointed out that although Western powers had "slain a large dragon" by defeating the Soviet Union in the Cold War, they now faced a "bewildering variety of poisonous snakes." In The Dragons and the Snakes, the eminent soldier-scholar David Kilcullen asks how, 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…

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Pages: 337

Language: en

ISBN-13: 9781787384279

ISBN-10: 1787384276