Bullets Not Ballots: Success in Counterinsurgency Warfare

Author/Contributor(s):	Hazelton, Jacqueline L
Publisher:	Cornell University Press
Date:	05/15/2021
Binding:	Hardcover
Condition:	NEW

"Examines how governments succeed against an armed, organized, persistent political challenge from their own people. It argues that compellence, the use and threat of force, explains and predicts counterinsurgency success as the result of government accommodation of rival political and armed elites, which gains the government information necessary to target the insurgency militarily; and the forceful control of civilians, which disrupts the flow of resources to the insurgency"--