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Aug 2021
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An Un-American Way of War: Why the Unite...

Irregular Warfare Initiative
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The United States and other nations have spent billions of dollars and invested untold effort, not to mention lives, in a global campaign against Islamist terrorism—and yet the threat landscape is arguably worse now than it was on 9/11. Despite the importance for national security of understanding how to wage irregular warfare effectively, something in the A ... Show More
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