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Irregular Soldiers and Rebellious States - Small-Scale U.S. Interventions Abroad (Paperback)
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Irregular Soldiers and Rebellious States - Small-Scale U.S. Interventions Abroad (Paperback)
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With the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq seemingly drawing down, and
with new calls to focus on the threats of great power competition
posed by states such as China and Russia on the rise, what will
happen to U.S. capabilities for dealing with conflicts that occur
in messy political-military environments? Irregular Soldiers and
Rebellious States offers, for both expert and non-expert audiences,
a useful typology and background for examining interventions where
U.S. advisors and forces operating on a small-scale basis will
either work with a foreign government to help defend it from
threats of subversion or insurgency (known as Foreign Internal
Defense) or to assist insurgents or guerrilla forces in countering
a hostile regime (known as Unconventional Warfare). It uses nine
examples to illustrate how the U.S.-and the British in one
case-used such capabilities in either limited or assertive ways to
defend (El Salvador, Philippines, Sahel, and Dhofar) or counter
(Angola, Nicaragua, northern Iraq, and Afghanistan) foreign
governments. Placing such interventions within the broader contexts
of American military history and the cultures of the armed forces,
it offers three key findings and six policy prescriptions for
wisely and judiciously using these capabilities in the present and
future.
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