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Proxy Warfare on the Cheap
The Partnership between the USA and the Syrian Kurds
- 135 pages
- English
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eBook - PDF
Proxy Warfare on the Cheap
The Partnership between the USA and the Syrian Kurds
About this book
This book illuminates on the US strategy of proxy warfare in modern times with the Syrian Civil War as a case study. Spyridon Plakoudas and Wojtek Michnik fuse modern history with international relations and strategic studies in order to offer an up-to-date and critical analysis of this unique partnership between a state (USA) and a non-state actor (Syrian Kurds) against another non-state actor (ISIS) - amidst the wider Syrian civil war. They argue that this partnership ended up as a double-edged sword: on the one hand, it defeated ISIS at a minimum cost in money and blood in comparison to the Iraq War, but, on the other hand, it ensnared the USA into a tangled web of competition and conflict with other powers with no easy way-out. In other words, proxy warfare may prove a not-so-cheap investment in the end.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Why the Kurds? Why Syria?
- The United States and Proxy Wars
- The Obama Presidency and Proxy Warfare in Syria
- The Trump Administration and Proxy Warfare in Syria
- The Biden Presidency and Proxy Warfare in Syria
- The USA–Syrian Kurds Partnership
- Appendix 1
- Appendix 2
- Appendix 3
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Authors