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Counterinsurgency and the Global War on Terror - Military Culture and Irregular War (Paperback)
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Counterinsurgency and the Global War on Terror - Military Culture and Irregular War (Paperback)
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Since September 2001, the United States has waged what the
government initially called the "global war on terrorism (GWOT)."
Beginning in late 2005 and early 2006, the term Long War began to
appear in U.S. security documents such as the National Security
Council's National Strategy for Victory in Iraq and in statements
by the U.S. Secretary of Defense and the Chairman of the JCS. The
description Long War--unlimited in time and space and continuing
for decades--is closer to reality and more useful than GWOT.
Colonel Robert Cassidy argues that this protracted struggle is more
correctly viewed as a global insurgency and counterinsurgency. Al
Qaeda and its affiliates, he maintains, comprise a novel and
evolving form of networked insurgents who operate globally,
harnessing the advantages of globalization and the information age.
They employ terrorism as a tactic, subsuming terror within their
overarching aim of undermining the Western-dominated system of
states. Placing the war against al Qaeda and its allied groups and
organizations in the context of a global insurgency has vital
implications for doctrine, interagency coordination, and military
cultural change--all reviewed in this important work.
He first offers a distilled analysis of al Qaeda and its associated
networks, with a particular focus on ideology and culture. In
subsequent chapters, he elucidates the challenges big powers face
when they prosecute counterinsurgencies, using historical examples
from Russian, American, British, and French counterinsurgent wars
before 2001. The book concludes with recommendations for the
integration and command and control of indigenous forces and other
agencies.
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