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Author Serena, Chad C., author.

Title It takes more than a network : the Iraqi insurgency and organizational adaptation / Chad C. Serena
Published Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2014
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Description 1 online resource (239 pages)
Contents The nature of the Iraqi insurgency, networks, and organizational adaptation -- The Iraqi insurgency : organizational inputs -- The Iraqi insurgency : organizational outputs, learning, and summary of the adaptive cycle -- Seeing Afghanistan, thinking Iraq : evaluating and comparing the insurgency in Afghanistan -- It takes more than a network
Summary It Takes More than a Network presents a structured investigation of the Iraqi insurgency's capacity for and conduct of organizational adaptation. In particular, it answers the question of why the Iraqi insurgency was seemingly so successful between 2003 and late 2006 and yet nearly totally collapsed by 2008. The book's main argument is that the Iraqi insurgency failed to achieve longer-term organizational goals because many of its organizational strengths were also its organizational weaknesses: these characteristics abetted and then corrupted the Iraqi insurgency's ability to adap
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Insurgency -- Iraq
Iraq War, 2003-2011.
Organizational change -- Iraq
Organizational effectiveness -- Iraq
Insurgency -- Afghanistan
Afghan War, 2001-2021.
HISTORY -- Middle East -- General.
Insurgency
Organizational change
Organizational effectiveness
Afghanistan
Iraq
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780804790468
0804790469