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Rethinking Western Approaches to Counterinsurgency - Lessons From Post-Colonial Conflict (Paperback)
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Rethinking Western Approaches to Counterinsurgency - Lessons From Post-Colonial Conflict (Paperback)
Series: Studies in Insurgency, Counterinsurgency and National Security
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This book critically examines the Western approach to
counter-insurgency in the post-colonial era and offers a series of
recommendations to address current shortfalls. The author argues
that current approaches to countering insurgency rely too heavily
on conflicts from the post-World War II years of waning
colonialism. Campaigns conducted over half a century ago - Malaya,
Aden, and Kenya among them - remain primary sources on which the
United States, British, Australian, and other militaries build
their guidance for dealing with insurgent threats, this though both
the character of those threats and the conflict environment are
significantly different than was the case in those earlier years.
This book addresses the resulting inconsistencies by offering
insights, analysis, and recommendations drawn from campaigns more
applicable to counter-insurgency today. Eight post-colonial
conflicts; to include Northern Ireland, Sierra Leone, Colombia and
Iraq; provide the basis for analysis. All are examples in which
counterinsurgents attained or continue to demonstrate considerable
progress when taking on enterprises better known for disaster and
disappointment. Recommendations resulting from these analyses
challenge entrenched beliefs to serve as the impetus for essential
change. Rethinking Western Approaches to Counterinsurgency will be
of much interest to students of counter-insurgencies, military and
strategic studies, security studies and IR in general.
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