 | When Counterinsurgency Wins: Sri Lanka''s Defeat of the Tamil Tigers Subjects: Tamilila Viṭutalaippulikạl (Association) -- History; Counterinsurgency -- Sri Lanka; Insurgency -- Sri Lanka; Tamil (Indic people) -- Sri Lanka -- Politics and government; Sri Lanka -- History -- Civil War 1983–2009; When Counterinsurgency Wins is the first book to analyze the final campaign that won the decades-long civil war in Sri Lanka in 2009. Ahmed Hashim traces the development of the counterinsurgency campaign from the early stages of the war to the later adaptations and military strategy that led to a decisive finish. Ahmed S. Hashim is Associate Professor in Security Studies at the Rajaratnam School of International Studies at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. He is also author of several books, including Insurgency and Counter-Insurgency in Iraq. |
