Westerners have long fetishized Oreintal warfare, hoping wither to emulate enemy strategy or assimilate members of Eastern and martial races into their ranks. Yet, at the same time, Eastern warriors such as the Taliban and Hezbollah inflict shock and surprise, reinventing themse…
This book argues against the idea that culture dictates the strategy of war and only encompasses an ambiguous repertoire of ideas rather than a clear code of action. The author warns of the danger of fetishizing the exotic, which complicates a more accurate understanding of the …
Cover -- Halftitle Page -- Title Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword by Martin Sixsmith -- Introduction -- 1 Sympathies in the struggle: Reporting Russia in revolution, 1917 -- 2 'The press is lying, or does not know': Russia go…
"James Rodgers was a foreign correspondent based in Moscow in the periods 1991-1993; 1998-2000 and 2006-2009. As such, he witnessed Russia's transformation from the Soviet Union to today's Putin State. Each of those periods, from the 1980s until today, saw significantly differen…
"The story of western correspondents in Russia is the story of Russia's attitude to the west. Russia has at different times been alternately open to western ideas and contacts, cautious and distant or, for much of the twentieth century, all but closed off. From the revolutionary…
