Böcker av Ahmed S. Hashim

When Counterinsurgency Wins is the first book to analyze the final campaign that won the decades-long civil war in Sri Lanka in 2009. Ahmed Hashim traces the development of the counterinsurgency campaign from the early stages of the war to the later adaptations and military strategy that led to a decisive finish.

Innovation is key to military success, as Ahmed Hashim explains in his study of how Islamic State functions as a fighting, social media and administrative entity.

This is a timely study of 'small wars,' such as the current situation in Afghanistan. It is wide-ranging, from the Ancient World to Napoleon and beyond, from anti-colonial resistance to counter-insurgency struggles.

Offers an assessment of the security implications for Asia of energy resource scarcity. This paper explores the danger that expanding reliance on nuclear energy, as an alternative to diminishing and polluting fossil fuels, could pose a proliferation risk and possibly even lead to nuclear war.