| Description |
1 online resource (239 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The nature of the Iraqi insurgency, networks, and organizational adaptation -- The Iraqi insurgency : organizational inputs -- The Iraqi insurgency : organizational outputs, learning, and summary of the adaptive cycle -- Seeing Afghanistan, thinking Iraq : evaluating and comparing the insurgency in Afghanistan -- It takes more than a network. |
| Summary |
It Takes More than a Network presents a structured investigation of the Iraqi insurgency's capacity for and conduct of organizational adaptation. In particular, it answers the question of why the Iraqi insurgency was seemingly so successful between 2003 and late 2006 and yet nearly totally collapsed by 2008. The book's main argument is that the Iraqi insurgency failed to achieve longer-term organizational goals because many of its organizational strengths were also its organizational weaknesses: these characteristics abetted and then corrupted the Iraqi insurgency's ability to adap. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Afghan War (2001-2021) |
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Iraq War (2003-2011) |
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Insurgency -- Iraq.
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Insurgency. |
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Iraq. |
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Iraq War, 2003-2011.
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Organizational change -- Iraq.
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Organizational change. |
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Organizational effectiveness -- Iraq.
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Organizational effectiveness. |
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Insurgency -- Afghanistan.
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Afghanistan. |
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Afghan War, 2001-2021.
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| Chronological Term |
2003 - 2011 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Serena, Chad C. It takes more than a network. Stanford, California : Stanford Securities Studies, 2014 9780804789035 (DLC) 2013043449 (OCoLC)862575395 |
| ISBN |
9780804790468 (e-book) |
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0804790469 (e-book) |
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9780804790451 |
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9780804789035 |
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0804789037 |
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0804790450 |
| Standard No. |
40023334766 |
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