Deadly Paradigms : : The Failure of U.S. Counterinsurgency Policy /

Deadly Paradigms : : The Failure of U.S. Counterinsurgency Policy / / D. Michael Shafer.

Michael Shafer argues that American policymakers have fundamentally misperceived the political context of revolutionary wars directed against American clients and that because American attempts at counterinsurgency were based on faulty premises, these efforts have failed in virtually every instance....

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
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Shafer, D. Michael,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]
©1988
Year of Publication:2014
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
Series:Princeton Legacy Library ; 1032
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Physical Description:1 online resource (348 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • PREFACE AND READER'S GUIDE
  • ABBREVIATIONS
  • NOTATION FOR FOOTNOTES AND BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • PART I
  • 1. Introduction: Dogs That Didn't Bark
  • 2. Possible Explanations: Sources of Policy Content and Continuity
  • PART II
  • 3. Flight, Fall, and Persistance: Political Development Theory
  • 4. Security and Development
  • 5. Mao Minus Marx: American Counterinsurgency Doctrine
  • PART III
  • 6. Not So Exceptionally American
  • 7. Greece: The Trojan Horse
  • 8. The Philippines: Magsaysay's Miracle
  • 9. Vietnam: Reaping the Whirlwind
  • PART IV
  • 10. Conclusion: Facing the Future
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX

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