Beating Goliath

"Record's Beating Goliath is a book everyone should read. Its insights into US public opinion and strategic culture, its analysis of the current US war in Iraq and its conclusionscogently summing up the policy-relevant literature on asymmetrical conflict outcomes and counter-insurgency strategyare among the best and most accessible of any of these subjects in print."Survival This impressive book deserves a wide audience. Undergraduates and general readers will find this book to be an excellent introduction to the topic. The high level of analysis also makes this book essential reading for war-fighting practitioners and counterinsurgency specialists.Proceedings This book is highly recommended to any national-level elected political officials, military personnel of all ranks, civil servants dealing with foreign policy or the Department of Defense and to any citizen who wants to know more than the popular media can give you. This is an excellent work.Special Warfare "Record's well-chosen case studies highlight the common characteristics of successful insurgencies. . . . His analysis is persuasive and makes for a sobering read."Military Review Record has given us a thoughtful, well-researched, historically based, look at a problem all too timelyBeating Goliath: Why Insurgencies Win stands as one of the best of the recent books on the evolving nature of insurgencies and the challenges they present.Journal of Military History This is a book well worth reading . . . highly recommended.Choice

Jeffrey Record is a professor of strategy at the Air War College in Montgomery, Alabama. He is the author of Bounding the Global War on Terrorism (2004), Dark Victory: Americas Second War against Iraq(2004), and Beating Goliath: Why Insurgencies Win (Potomac Books, Inc., 2007). He served in Vietnam as a pacification adviser and received his doctorate from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. He lives in Atlanta.