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1 online resource (xiii, 375 pages) : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Rethinking political violence
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Rethinking political violence.
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| Summary |
Over the last decade, the notion of counter-insurgency (COIN) has risen to prominence as the dominant paradigm in American and British thinking about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Despite the high level of attention paid to the subject by military analysts, the broader theoretical and historical factors which underpin counter-insurgency have received comparatively little critical scrutiny. This volume addresses the gap in existing scholarship by exploring and challenging several critical aspects of the prevailing orthodoxy on COIN. This critical reappraisal of counter-insurgency thinking and practice brings together a number of international academics and practitioners, providing a pluralistic insight on the effectiveness of counter-insurgency operations from military, academic, media and civilian administrative perspectives. It also combines US and British insights into the theory and practise of twenty-first century COIN. With the continuing relevance of 'big third party' COIN to Western engagement in future wars of choice, this book provides an important and timely analysis of an issue which will continue to impact American and British security policy and future interventions. This book will appeal to scholars of Military Studies, Strategic Studies, Security Studies and International Relations and to practitioners and policy-makers working in the field of counter-insurgency. |
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Introduction; Celeste Ward Gventer, David Martin Jones and M.L.R Smith -- PART I: COUNTERINSURGENCY: HISTORY AND THEORY -- 1. Minting New COIN: Critiquing Counter-insurgency Theory; David Martin Jones, Celeste Ward Gventer and M.L.R Smith -- 2. COIN and the Chameleon: The Categorical Errors of Trying to Divide the Indivisible; M.L.R Smith -- 3. Our Own Worst Enemy: The Unspoken Paradox of Large-Scale Expeditionary COIN; Jeffrey Michaels -- 4. Government in a Box? Counter-insurgency, State Building, and the Technocratic Conceit; Colin Jackson -- 5. 'Our Ghettos, Too, Need a Lansdale': American Counter-insurgency Abroad and at Home in the Vietnam Era; William Rosenau -- 6. Bringing The Soil Back In: Control and Territoriality in Western and Non-Western COIN; James Worrall -- 7. Counter-insurgency and Violence Management; Paul Staniland -- 8. Mass, Methods, and Means: The Northern Ireland 'Model' of Counter-insurgency; John Bew -- 9. David Galula and the Revival of COIN in the US Military; Douglas Porch -- PART II: COUNTER-INSURGENCY IN IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN? -- 10. Testing the Surge: Why Did Violence Decline in Iraq in 2007?; Stephen Biddle, Jeffrey A. Friedman and Jacob N. Shapiro -- 11. After a Decade of Counter-insurgency, Eliminate Nation-building from US Military Manuals; Bing West -- 12. The Conceit of American Counter-insurgency; Gian Gentile -- 13. 'The Population is the Enemy': Control, Behaviour, and Counter-insurgency in Central Helmand Province, Afghanistan; Ryan Evans -- 14. The Reluctant Counter-insurgents: Britain's Absent Surge in Southern Iraq; Huw Bennett -- PART III: COUNTER-INSURGENCY AND FUTURE WARFARE -- 15. Questions about COIN after Iraq and Afghanistan; Joshua Rovner -- 16. The Military Utility & Interventions Post-Afghanistan: Reassessing Ends, Ways and Means; Matthew Ford -- 17. 'What Do We Do If We Are Never Going to Do This Again: Western Counter-insurgency Choices after Iraq and Afghanistan'; Paul Schulte. |
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Counterinsurgency -- History -- 21st century.
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Counterinsurgency. |
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History. |
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21st century |
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United States -- Military policy -- History -- 21st century.
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United States. |
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Military policy. |
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Great Britain -- Military policy -- History -- 21st century.
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Great Britain. |
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War & defence operations. |
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International relations. |
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HISTORY -- Military -- Other. |
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Military Science. |
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Warfare and Defence. |
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War & defence operations. |
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International relations. |
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Warfare and Defence. |
| Chronological Term |
2000-2099 |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Gventer, Celeste Ward, editor.
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Jones, David Martin, 1950- editor.
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Smith, M. L. R. (Michael Lawrence Rowan), 1963- editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: New counter-insurgency era in critical perspective. Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014 9781137336934 (OCoLC)862759835 |
| ISBN |
9781137336941 (electronic book) |
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1137336943 (electronic book) |
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9781349463626 (print) |
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