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What does the biggest geopolitical project of our time tell us about China’s global ambitions?
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A reflective examination of everyday life in Lebanon in times of precarity and political torpor.
Includes an introduction, annotated tactical case studies, and an appendix on the key principles of the hugely successful Surge campaign of 2007 in Iraq. This title is suitable for field officers and for students and the general readers.
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Sir David Omand served as Intelligence and Security Coordinator in the Cabinet Office from 2002-2005, coordinating counterterrorism strategy. He draws on historical examples to argue... Læs mere
A deeply personal tale of young life in a superpower haunted by its past.