Adapting to Win: How Insurgents Fight and Defeat Foreign States in War
ISBN: 9780812290134
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Pennsylvania Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter



Through case studies of violent insurgent groups pitted against foreign state powers, including in-depth examinations of the war in Afghanistan and the 2003 Iraq war, Adapting to Win examines the circumstances and tactics that allow some insurgencies to succeed in wars against foreign governments while others fail.


Noriyuki Katagiri teaches in the Department of International Security Studies at Air War College, United States Air Force, Maxwell Air Force Base.
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