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Kakars,
47

Kharotei tribe,
49
–
50

military of,
7
,
79
,
218

NATO presence in,
17
,
123
–
4

Maiwand, battle of,
214
–
6

Marjah District,
24

Mujahideen, as a political identity,
76
,
80
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83
,
88
,
210
,
215
,
217
–
8

Musa Qala,
80
,
214

Nad Ali District,
24
,
49
–
50

narcotics,
44
,
107
–
9

Noorzai tribe,
46
,
49
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50

Now Zad,
42
,
214

International Coalition in Afghanistan since 2001,
1
–
2
,
23
,
32
–
3
,
50
,
84
,
93
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100
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1
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104
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121
–
29
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190
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1
,
209
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214
,
232
,
241

Pashtun population of,
56

political dynamics/government of,
2
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4
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22
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28
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33
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43
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48
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9
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51
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53
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56
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75
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6
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79
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82
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3
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94
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100
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105
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6
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108
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143
,
204
–
5
,
222
,
241

Sangin,
46
,
125

Soviet conflict in (1979–89),
210
,
217
–
19

Tajik population of,
56
,
79
,
218

transition,
108
–
9

Uruzgan Province,
15
,
17
,
77
–
8

Uzbek population of,
79

Wednesday Market Bombing (2010),
204
–
5

Akhundzada, Mullah Sharafudin:
45

Akhundzada, Sher Mohammed:
44
–
7
,
53

Provincial Governor of Helmand Province,
44
,
214

removed from office (2005),
48

al-Qaeda:
46
,
75
,
88
,
102
–
3
,
187
–
8
,
209

Ambeyla campaign (1863):
87

Anderson Jr, Admiral George W.:
184

Anglo-Malaysian Defence Agreement (1957):
162

Anwar Sadat:
38

Arab Spring:
217
,
242

Libyan intervention (2011),
217

Argentina:
34

Aristotle:
225

Rhetoric
,
188
–
9
,
205
–
6
,
208
–
10
,
213

armed politics: see ‘use of force'

Arminius:
36

audiences: outcomes of conflicts defined against,
2
–
7
,
12
,
15
,
22
–
24
,
28
,
31
,
35
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49
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57
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63
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66
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75
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84
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89
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97
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101
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117
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173
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74
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177
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184
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189
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193
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196
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199
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208
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211
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213
,
220
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26
,
243

non-state audiences/identification with the state,
200
–
7
,
229

in the Afghan Conflict, see ‘Afghanistan'

responses of audiences to strategic narrative, see ‘strategic narrative'

Augustine of Hippo:
224
–
5

Augustus: Emperor of Roman Empire,
36

Australia:
17
,
22
,
164

military of,
157

navy of,
172

Austria: Siege of Vienna (1529),
59

Ba'ath Party:
71

Bailyn, Bernard:
196
–
7

Basanta Gurung, Corporal:
59

Begg, Admiral Sir Varyl:
171

British Commander-in-Chief Far East,
166

Bernanke, Ben: Chairman of US Federal Reserve,
213

van Bijlert, Martine:
77
–
8

von Bismarck, Otto:
112

Bharat Kumar Pun, Lance Corporal:
20

Biblical interpretation:
29
–
30
,
219
–
20
,
223
–
24

Blair, Tony: foreign policy of,
56

Bogdanor, Vernon:
121

Bonaparte, Napoleon:
88
,
133
,
187

evolution of warfare,
64
–
66
,
133

maxims,
194
–
95

Borneo:
158
,
164
,
166

indigenous tribes of,
174

Kalimantan,
169
–
70

Sarawak,
158
–
59
,
165
,
169

Borneo Confrontation (Indonesian Confrontation) (1962–6):
14
,
157
–
78
,
181

air and naval element,
172
–
73

British policy in,
160
–
65
,
174
–
75

chronological overview,
159

Claret operations in,
168
–
71

genocide in Indonesia (1965–66),
177
,
228
–
29
,
232

operational approach,
165
–
174

origins of,
158
–
59

strategic narrative in,
163
–
65

termination of,
176
–
77

Bosnian War (1992–5):
56

Gorazde (1994–5),
211

Srebrenica (1995),
211

British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC):
204
–
5

World Service,
221

Brown, Gordon: British Prime Minister,
43
,
122

Brunei:
158

Bullock, Christopher:
Journeys Hazardous: Gurkha Clandestine Operations in Borneo 1965
(1994),
170

Burma:
166
–
7
,
175

Bush, George W.:
208
–
9
,
224

Address to Congress (2001),
229

administration of,
211

Butler, Rab:
162
,
173

British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs,
160
–
1

Cambodia:
160

Canada: military of,
43
–
4
,
108

Carter, Stephen:
48

Carthage:
132

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

Catholic Church: see ‘Biblical interpretation'

centre of gravity: see ‘von Clausewitz, Carl'

Chaman Balal, Lance Corporal:
59

Chandler, Major Shaun:
61
,
83
,
153
–
4

Chapman, F. Spencer:
97

Chayes, Sarah:
The Punishment of Virtue
(2006),
47

Chechnya:
13
,
153
,
209
,
211

China (People's Republic of China (PRC)):
3
,
12
,
41
,
114

Tsingtao,
33

Chinese Communist Organisation (COO):
165

civil-military relations: see ‘procedural/constitutional aspects' under ‘strategy'

Civilian leaders in conflict:
25
,
126
–
29
,
141
,
243

Clark, Kate:
48

von Clausewitz, Carl:
4
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14
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30
,
42
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54
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56
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58
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65
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8
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72
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88
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91
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102
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115
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117
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182
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185
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193
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4
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196
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200
–
2
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205
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230
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234
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243

audiences,
61
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63
,
182
,
200
–
2

centre of gravity,
100
–
1
,
132
–
4
,
155

civil-military relations,
111
–
2
,
115

commander,
193

concept of war's ‘decision'/
ganze Krieg
in relation to limited war,
54
–
66
,
210
,
231

friction,
193

geist
,
195

grammar of war,
126
–
29
,
238

human element of war/‘passion',
193
–
196
,
200
–
2
,
228
,
238
–
39

On War
(1816–30),
54
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5
,
64
,
111
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12
,
133
,
195
,
228
,
231
,
239

operational principles,
133
–
137

paradigm of war,
24
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27
,
34
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35
,
38
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9
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63
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68
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73
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75
84
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9
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92
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99
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101
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131
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132
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34
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201
,
234
–
235

physical and perceived components of war's outcome,
57
–
61

polarity between opponents in war,
54
–
57

policy,
112
,
115
,
117
,
196

pragmatism,
155

strategy, definition of,
118
,
133

strategy, theory of,
239
–
240

trinity of war,
84
–
5
,
193
,
238
–
39

war as legal trial,
27
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34
,
62
,
68

Cold War:
114
–
15
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158
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160
,
171
,
175
–
6
,
181
,
210
,
233

deterrence
172

development of strategic
theory during,
140
–
1

domino theory,
161

Fall of Berlin Wall (1989),
242

proxy warfare of,
26

Communism:
62
,
103
,
151
–
2
,
158
–
60
,
176

Corbett, Julian:
118

Council for Emerging National Security Affairs (CENSA):
Hybrid Warfare and Transnational Threats: Perspectives for an Era of Persistent Conflict
,
10

counter-insurgency:
11
,
36
,
73
,
79
,
142
–
53
,
181
,
228
,
235
–
38
,
241

‘crusaders'/‘conservatives' debate between, see ‘strategic and operational approaches'

long-term nature of,
24

operational approach of, see ‘strategic and operational approaches'

strategic approach of, see ‘strategic and operational approaches'

Crane, Dr Conrad:
93
,
140

editor of US Counterinsurgency Field Manual,
23

Crowe, Charlie:
17
,
20
–
1

‘crusaders' and ‘conservatives', debate between: see ‘strategic and operational approaches'

Cuba:
184

Cuban Missile Crisis (1962): US naval blockade of Cuba,
184

Cullather, Nick:
217
–
18

cumulative campaigns: see ‘use of force'

cyber-space:
9
,
231

Czechoslovakia:
92

Daud Mohammed Khan:
47
–
48

decisiveness in conflict: see ‘use of force'

defeat, concept of: see ‘decisiveness in conflict'

Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam):
36
–
8
,
73

military of,
200

Denning, Lord Alfred:
225

Dhofar campaign: see ‘Oman'

Diêm, Ngô Đinh: regime of,
151

domestic politics, analogy to: see ‘use of force'

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