When Counterinsurgency Wins : : Sri Lanka's Defeat of the Tamil Tigers /

When Counterinsurgency Wins : : Sri Lanka's Defeat of the Tamil Tigers / / Ahmed S. Hashim.

For twenty-six years, civil war tore Sri Lanka apart. Despite numerous peace talks, cease-fires, and external military and diplomatic pressure, war raged on between the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam and the Sinhala-dominated Sri Lankan government. Then, in 2009, the Sri Lankan military...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package Complete Collection
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Hashim, Ahmed S.,
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2013]
©2013
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (280 p.) :; 7 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Sri Lankan War in Context
  • 2. Background to War: State Formation and Identities in Conflict
  • 3. The Eelam Wars I-III Campaigns
  • 4. Eelam War IV: A Military Analysis
  • 5. Postwar Sri Lanka: Reconciliation or Triumphalism?
  • NOTES
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • Name Index
  • Subject Index
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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