A comparative analysis to assess the Bush administration's actions in Iraq, focusing specifically on the policy of counterinsurgency...from Publisher.

Intervention as liberation: the French in Mexico, 1861-1867 -- Holding onto chaos: the Ottoman Empire in the Arabian Peninsula, 1915-1918 -- Impossible resistance: the American war in Vietnam, 1965-1975 -- A better ideology: the Soviet Union in Afghanistan, 1979-1989 -- Warfare as ritual: the war in Chechnya, 1994-1999 -- Creating a guerrilla war: the battle that came after victory in Iraq.