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Learning to Forget - US Army Counterinsurgency Doctrine and Practice from Vietnam to Iraq (Hardcover)
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Learning to Forget - US Army Counterinsurgency Doctrine and Practice from Vietnam to Iraq (Hardcover)
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"Learning to Forget" analyzes the evolution of US counterinsurgency
(COIN) doctrine over the last five decades. Beginning with an
extensive section on the lessons of Vietnam, it traces the decline
of COIN in the 1970s, then the rebirth of low intensity conflict
through the Reagan years, in the conflict in Bosnia, and finally in
the campaigns of Iraq and Afghanistan. Ultimately it closes the
loop by explaining how, by confronting the lessons of Vietnam, the
US Army found a way out of those most recent wars. In the process
it provides an illustration of how military leaders make use of
history and demonstrates the difficulties of drawing lessons from
the past that can usefully be applied to contemporary
circumstances.
The book outlines how the construction of lessons is tied to the
construction of historical memory and demonstrates how histories
are constructed to serve the needs of the present. In so doing, it
creates a new theory of doctrinal development.
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