The Political Impossibility of Modern Counterinsurgency : : Strategic Problems, Puzzles, and Paradoxes / / David Jones, M.L.R. Smith.
The counterinsurgency (COIN) paradigm dominates military and political conduct in contemporary Western strategic thought. It assumes future wars will unfold as "low intensity" conflicts within rather than between states, requiring specialized military training and techniques. COIN is under...
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Smith, M.L.R., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Political Impossibility of Modern Counterinsurgency : Strategic Problems, Puzzles, and Paradoxes / David Jones, M.L.R. Smith. New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2015] ©2015 1 online resource (272 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Columbia Studies in Terrorism and Irregular Warfare Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. What Is Counterinsurgency Meant to Counter? The Puzzle of Insurgency -- 2. Counterinsurgency and Strategy: Problems and Paradoxes -- 3. Counterinsurgency and the Ideology of Modernization -- 4. The Paradoxes of Counterinsurgency and Globalization -- 5. The Illusion of Tradition: Myths and Paradoxes of British Counterinsurgency -- 6. The Puzzle of Counterinsurgency and Escalation -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star The counterinsurgency (COIN) paradigm dominates military and political conduct in contemporary Western strategic thought. It assumes future wars will unfold as "low intensity" conflicts within rather than between states, requiring specialized military training and techniques. COIN is understood as a logical, effective, and democratically palatable method for confronting insurgency-a discrete set of practices that, through the actions of knowledgeable soldiers and under the guidance of an expert elite, creates lasting results.Through an extensive investigation into COIN's theories, methods, and outcomes, this book undermines enduring claims about COIN's success while revealing its hidden meanings and effects. Interrogating the relationship between counterinsurgency and war, the authors question the supposed uniqueness of COIN's attributes and try to resolve the puzzle of its intellectual identity. Is COIN a strategy, a doctrine, a theory, a military practice, or something else? Their analysis ultimately exposes a critical paradox within COIN: while it ignores the vital political dimensions of war, it is nevertheless the product of a misplaced ideological faith in modernization. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022) Counterinsurgency History 21st century. Terrorism History 21st century. POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General. bisacsh Jones, David, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 9783110665864 print 9780231170000 https://doi.org/10.7312/smit17000 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780231539128 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780231539128/original |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. What Is Counterinsurgency Meant to Counter? The Puzzle of Insurgency -- 2. Counterinsurgency and Strategy: Problems and Paradoxes -- 3. Counterinsurgency and the Ideology of Modernization -- 4. The Paradoxes of Counterinsurgency and Globalization -- 5. The Illusion of Tradition: Myths and Paradoxes of British Counterinsurgency -- 6. The Puzzle of Counterinsurgency and Escalation -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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