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Proxy Warfare on the Cheap
The Partnership between the USA and the Syrian Kurds
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2023
Summary
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.
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Edition
1/2023
Copyright Year
2023
ISBN-Print
978-1-7936-2486-4
ISBN-Online
978-1-7936-2487-1
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
124
Product Type
Monograph
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Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
Why the Kurds? Why Syria? No access Pages 1 - 8
The United States and Proxy Wars No access Pages 9 - 30
The Obama Presidency and Proxy Warfare in Syria No access Pages 31 - 54
The Trump Administration and Proxy Warfare in Syria No access Pages 55 - 74
The Biden Presidency and Proxy Warfare in Syria No access Pages 75 - 86
The USA–Syrian Kurds Partnership No access Pages 87 - 92
