@book{2023:michnik:proxy_warf,
title = {Proxy Warfare on the Cheap},
year = {2023},
note = {This book seeks to shed more light on the US strategy of proxy warfare
in modern times with the Syrian Civil War as a case study. The two
authors combine Modern History with International Relations and
Strategic Studies in order to offer an up-to-date and critical
analysis of this unique partnership between a state (USA) and a
non-state actor (Syrian Kurds) against another non-state actor (ISIS)
- amidst a wider civil war. They argue that this partnership ended up
as a double-edged sword: on the one hand, it defeated ISIS at a
minimum cost in treasure and blood in comparison to the Iraq War, but,
on the other hand, it ensnared the USA into a tangled web of
competition and conflict with other powers with no easy way-out. In
other words, proxy warfare - as the two authors show-case - may prove
a not-so-cheap investment in the end.},
edition = {1},
publisher = {Lexington},
address = {Lanham},
series = {},
volume = {},
author = {Michnik, Wojciech and Plakoudas, Spyridon}
}