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A Brief History of Helmand
(2011),
46
–
7

Marxism:
227

Massoud, Ahmed Shah:
80
,
218

Masters, John:
Bugles and a Tiger
(1956),
88

McChrystal, General Stanley:
98
,
105
,
147
,
181
,
225
–
6
,
232

McKiernan, General David:
122

McMaster, Brigadier General H.R.:
146

McNamara, Robert: US Secretary of Defense,
138
,
184

means, kinetic (violent) and non-kinetic (non-violent): see ‘use of force'

Mercian Regiment: see ‘United Kingdom'

Merkel, Angela: German Chancellor,
32

military principles: see ‘strategic and operational approaches'

Mohammed, Dost: reign of,
215

von Moltke, Helmuth:
112

morale:
195

More, Sir Thomas:
220

mosaic conflicts: see ‘kaleidoscopic/fragmented battlespaces' under ‘enemy, concept of'

Moshtarak
, operation in Helmand Province (2010):
24

Mujahideen:
76
,
80
,
82
–
3
,
88
,
210
,
215
,
218

Mutay, operation in Helmand Province (2006):
42
–
43

Mykleby, Colonel Mark:
181

Nagl, Colonel (Ret.) John:
155

Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife
(2005),
146
–
7

Najibullah, Mohammed: regime of,
210

Napoleonic Wars (1803–15):
26
,
64
,
228

Battle of Jena (1806),
65

Battle of Leipzig (1813),
64
–
5

Battle of Waterloo (1815),
133

Nasrallah, Sheikh Hasan: Secretary-General of Hezbollah,
70

Nasution, General Abdul Haris:
160

national strategy: see ‘strategic and operational approaches'

Nationalism: Pashtun,
57

Nepal:
189
,
221

Civil War (1996–2006),
221
,
227
–
8

Netherlands: military forces and government of:
22
,
161
,
210

New Zealand:
164

military of,
157

navy of,
172

Nixon, Richard:
210

non-state audiences: see ‘audiences'

North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO):
3
,
42
,
69
,
79
,
123
,
125
,
141
,
176
,
209

intervention in Kosovo (1999),
56
,
69

military presence in Afghanistan,
17
,
123
–
4

OPLAN 10302, Revise 1 (2005),
123
–
4

Northern Alliance:
56

members of,
80

Northern Ireland: Good Friday Agreement (1998),
78
–
9

North-West Frontier:
87
–
8
,
166

nuclear weapons:
36
,
141
,
161
,
236

Obama, Barack:
98
,
226

administration of,
145

foreign policy of,
123
,
145
–
6

Odierno, General Raymond:
63

Oman: Dhofar campaign (1962–76),
11
,
151
–
3

Omar, Mullah:
215

Amir-al-Mu'minin
,
215

Operational approaches: see ‘strategic and operational approaches'

Organisation for Co-operation and Security in Europe:
56

Osgood, Robert:
Limited War
(1957),
176

Ottoman Empire:
33

territory of,
59

Pakistan:
3
,
43
,
45
,
48
,
50
,
77
,
83
–
4

borders of,
46

drone strikes in,
3

insurgency activity in,
107

Miram Shah,
75

Peshawar,
75

Quetta,
75
,
77

Swat Valley,
28
,
87

Taliban presence in,
28

Waziristan,
46
,
88

Palestine: Gaza,
71

Palk Wahel
, operation in Helmand Province (2007):
28
,
59
–
61

Parachute Regiment: see ‘United Kingdom'

Paret, Peter:
135

Patton, General George: Third Army Group of,
92
–
3

Persian Gulf War (First Gulf War) (1990–1):
141
–
42
,
234

Petraeus, General David:
146

Commander of ISAF,
220

Polarity, concept of: see ‘enemy'

policy:
24
,
28
,
30
–
32
,
36
,
39
,
73
–
75
,
91
–
97
,
107
–
9
,
111
–
126
,
131
–
35
,
137
–
38
,
141
–
47
,
157
,
160
–
65
,
167
,
181
–
84
,
196
,
231
,
236
,
240
,
243
–
44

Clausewitz and policy, see von Clausewitz, Carl

Pompey, Gnaeus:
149

Porter, Captain Wayne:
181

Porter, Patrick:
Military Orientalism
(2009),
70
,
102
–
3

Powell, General Colin: adaptation of Weinberger doctrine,
234

Powindah, Mullah:
87
–
8

Pragmatism, theme of: see ‘strategic and operational approaches'

Protestantism: see ‘Biblical interpretation'

Prussia:
65
,
84
–
5

military of,
112
,
135

Qaboos, Sultan: family of,
152

Rahman, Tunku Abdur:
88
,
173

RAND Corporation: studies conducted by,
138

Rashid, Ahmed:
79
,
190
–
1

Reid, John: British Secretary of State for Defence,
44
,
122

Remarque, Erich Maria:
All Quiet on the Western Front
(1928),
202
–
4

Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam):
36

government of,
138

military of,
139

Saigon,
36
,
138
,
200

Revolutionary Wars (1792–1802): Battle of Valmy (1792),
64

Roman Empire:
35
–
6
,
224

territory of,
59

Roman Republic:
236

destruction of Carthage during Third Punic War (149–146 BCE),
57
–
8

Rome,
132

Roosevelt, Franklin D.:
114

Rusk, Dean: US Secretary of State,
164
–
5

Russian Empire: Moscow,
64

Russian Federation:
13
,
69
,
153
,
211

cyber-attack in Estonia (2007),
231

Russian-Georgian War (2009): role of strategic audiences during,
69

Saakashvili, Mikheil: President of Georgia,
69

Saalam, Mullah: District Governor of Musa Qala,
80

Sadhullah, Mullah:
88

Sadat, Anwar:
38

Sandys, Duncan: British Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations,
167

Sassoon, Siegfried:
Memoirs of an Infantry Office
(1930),
197
–
8

von Schlieffen, Alfred:
112

Scipio the Elder: victory at Battle of Zama (202 BCE),
132

Scott, Ridley:
Gladiator
(2000),
58

Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878–80
):
213
,
215

Battle of Maiwand (1880),
216

Second Lebanon War (2006):
69
–
72

casualties during,
70

Israeli war aims during,
70

Second Punic War (218–201 BCE): Battle of Zama (202 BCE),
132

Second World War (1939–45):
25
,
37
,
92
,
113
,
138
,
144
–
5
,
191
,
211

Battle of France (1940),
186
–
7

Battle of Meiktila (1945),
192

Battle of Monte Cassino (1944),
189
–
90

belligerents of,
127

Burma Campaign (1942–45),
25
,
58
,
192

Eastern Front,
137

European Theatre,
92
,
137

Operation Barbarossa (1941),
137

Pacific Theatre,
94
,
150
,
192

sequential campaigns: see ‘use of force'

Serbia:
69
,
142

Shaoqi, Liu: Chairman of PRC,
160

Sheehan, Neil:
151

Bright Shining Lie
(1989),
103
,
199
–
200

Sherzai, Gul Agha:
47

Provincial Governor of Kandahar Province,
47

‘Shock and Awe': negative impact of,
72

use during Operation Enduring Freedom (2003–11),
71
–
2

Shrees, Padam Rifleman:
60

Shuja, Shah: reign of,
215

Shy, John:
142

sides, concept of: see ‘enemy'

Simms, Brendan:
Unfinest Hour
(2002),
211

Simpson James:
Burning to Read: English Fundamentalism and its Reformation Opponents
(2007),
223
–
4

Singapore:
158
,
164
,
171
,
173

Independence of (1959),
158

Slim, Field Marshal Viscount William:
Defeat into Victory
(1956),
58

Smith, General Sir Rupert:
33
–
4

The Utility of Force
(2005),
68
–
9

Snyder, Jack:
236

Sorkin, Andrew Ross:
Too Big to Fail
(2009),
213

South East Asia Treaty Organisation (SEATO): founding of (1955),
158

ministerial meetings,
170

Soviet Union (USSR):
92
,
141
,
161
,
184
,
217

collapse of (1991),
210

German Invasion of (1941),
137

Invasion of Afghanistan (1979–89),
210
,
217
–
19

military of,
216

Moscow,
160

nuclear strategy of,
236

Special Air Service (SAS): see ‘United Kingdom'

Spin Ghar
, operation in Uruzgan Province (2007):
15
–
21

Sri Lanka: Civil War (1983–2009),
1
,
12
–
13
,
209
,
232

government of,
12
–
13
,
153
,
209

Tamil population of,
12

Stabilisation doctrine: use by UK military,
143

Strachan, Hew:
137
,
140
,
201

‘Strategy and the Limitation of War' (2008),
33

strategic audiences: see ‘audiences'

strategic and operational approaches:
91
,
118
–
120
,
134
–
55
,
165
–
174
,
228
,
235
–
38
,
241
,
243
–
44

‘crusaders' and ‘conservatives', debate between,
10
–
12

counter-insurgency, in relation to,
5
,
10
–
14
,
94
,
131

manoeuvre in warfare/exploitation,
64
–
65
,
132
–
34
,
143
–
55

national strategy,
13
,
241
–
42

pragmatism, theme of,
14
,
131
,
135
,
137
,
157
,
160
–
61
,
174
–
75
,
237
,
242
–
43

strategic narrative:
5
,
14
,
38
–
9
,
59
–
63
,
75
,
84
,
91
,
93
,
99
,
105
,
107
–
9
,
115
–
18
,
121
–
29
,
161
,
163
–
5
,
175
,
177
–
80
,
184
,
189
,
196
,
199
,
203
–
4
,
206
–
11
,
213
–
14
,
217
,
219
,
222
–
25
,
229
,
232

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