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Offers an analysis of al Qaeda and its associated networks, with a particular focus on ideology and culture. This book details the challenges that big powers face when they prosecute counterinsurgencies, using examples from Russian, American, and British counterinsurgent wars during and before the twentieth century.

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He also offers some military cultural implications for the U.S. Army's ongoing transformation.

The first part of the study offers an in-depth assessment of the military cultural preferences and characteristics of the British and American militaries.