Beating Goliath: Why Insurgencies Win

About the Author

180 About the A About the A About the A About the A About the Author uthor uthor uthor uthor Well-known defense policy critic Jeffrey Record teaches strategy at the U.S. Air Force’s Air War College in Montgomery, Alabama. He received his doctorate at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and is the author of eight books and a dozen monographs, including Dark Victory: America’s Second War Against Iraq; Making War, Thinking History: Munich, Vietnam, and Presidential Uses of Force From Korea to Kosovo; Hollow Victory: A Contrary View of the Gulf War; The Wrong War: Why We Lost in Vietnam; Bounding the Global War on Terrorism; and The Specter of Munich: Reconsidering the Lessons of Appeasing Hitler. Dr. Record served as a pacification adviser in the Mekong Delta during the Vietnam War, and he has since served as a Rockefeller Younger Scholar on the Brookings Institution’s Defense Analysis Staff and as a senior fellow at the Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis, the Hudson Institute, and the BDM International Corporation. He also has extensive Capitol Hill experience , having served as legislative assistant for national security affairs to Senators Sam Nunn and Lloyd Bentsen and later as a professional staff member of the Senate Armed Services Committee. He lives in Atlanta, Georgia, with his wife, Leigh. ...