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Chris Lawrence
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posted 06-02-2014 11:22 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Chris Lawrence     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
My book America's Modern Wars: Understanding Iraq, Afghanistan and Vietnam is now listed in the Casemate Publishing Fall Catalog at: http://www.casematepublishing.com/pdf/Casemate%20F14%20Catalog.pdf

It is listed on page 8 and has a November publication date. This was the book I was working on originally called Understanding Insurgencies.

It looks like it will get out before my Kursk book does.

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Chris Lawrence
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posted 12-01-2014 04:18 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Chris Lawrence     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I think the new publication date is now 19 January 2015

http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9781612002781

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Chris Lawrence
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posted 02-24-2015 12:10 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Chris Lawrence     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
America's Modern Wars was released on 19 February 2015.


AMERICA’S MODERN WARS

UNDERSTANDING IRAQ, AFGHANISTAN AND VIETNAM

By: Christopher A. Lawrence




While the past half-century has seen no diminution in the valor and fighting skill of the U.S. military and its allies, the fact remains that our wars have become more protracted, with decisive results more elusive. Our campaigns have taken on the character of endless slogs without positive results. This fascinating book starts with the previously close-held casualty estimate for Iraq that The Dupuy Institute compiled in 2004 for the U.S. Department of Defense. Going from the practical to the theoretical, it then discusses a construct for understanding insurgencies and the contexts in which they can be fought. It applies these principles to Iraq, Afghanistan and Vietnam, assessing where the projection of U.S. power can enhance our position and where it merely weakens it.

America's Modern Wars presents an extensive analysis of insurgencies based upon a unique database of 83 post-WWII cases. The book explores what is important to combat and what is not important to combating insurgencies. As such, it builds a body of knowledge based upon a half-century’s worth of real-world data, with analysis, not opinion. In these pages, Christopher A. Lawrence, the President of The Dupuy Institute, provides an invaluable guide to how the U.S. can best project its vital power, while avoiding the missteps of the recent past.

America’s Modern Wars can be ordered directly from Casemate Publishing at: http://www.casematepublishing.com/title.php?isbn=9781612002781

or from Amazon.com at: http ://www.amazon.com/Americas-Modern-Wars-Understanding-Afghanistan/dp/1612002781/ref=sr_1_1_twi_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1424796719&sr=1-1&keywords=america%27s+modern+wars

or from any reputable book seller.


America's Modern Wars: Understanding Iraq, Afghanistan and Vietnam

Christopher A. Lawrence

6 x 9, 376 pages, 16pp photos, 9781612002781, $32.95, hardback, Casemate

WWW.CASEMATEPUBLISHERS.COM



For those still looking for it, my book Kursk: The Battle of Prokhorovka is expected to be out this July.


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Chris Lawrence
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posted 03-16-2015 10:13 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Chris Lawrence     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Book review on the Evil Cyclist's blog (don't know him):

https://evilcyclist.wordpress.com/2015/02/20/book-review-americas-modern-wars-understanding-iraq-afghanistan-and-vietnam/

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Chris Lawrence
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posted 03-16-2015 10:17 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Chris Lawrence     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Book review on Small Wars Journal (do know him):

http://smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art/book-review-america%E2%80%99s-modern-wars-understanding-iraq-afghanistan-and-vietnam

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Chris Lawrence
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posted 03-16-2015 10:19 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Chris Lawrence     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Article on the History News Network:

http://www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/158619

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Chris Lawrence
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posted 10-08-2015 07:16 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Chris Lawrence     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Detailed chapter-by-chapter review of the book done by John Sloan of the Xenophon Group (do know him):

http://www.xenophon-mil.org/politicaleconomy/lawrencemodernwars.htm

This is an interesting website, if you can navigate you way through it. There is a lot there:

http://www.xenophon-mil.org/xenindex.htm

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Chris Lawrence
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posted 10-13-2015 01:41 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Chris Lawrence     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Another book review. This time by someone I do not know.

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1142153036

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