The Political Impossibility of Modern Counterinsurgency : : Strategic Problems, Puzzles, and Paradoxes /

The Political Impossibility of Modern Counterinsurgency : : Strategic Problems, Puzzles, and Paradoxes / / David Jones, M.L.R. Smith.

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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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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Smith, M.L.R.,
Jones, David,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2015]
©2015
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Columbia Studies in Terrorism and Irregular Warfare
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Physical Description:1 online resource (272 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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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