Counterinsurgency Vignettes (Paperback)

Essay from the year 2011 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict Studies, Security, grade: None, Counterinsurgency Training Center Kabul, language: English, comment: This short paper is five vignettes that I used to support counterinsurgency training at the Counterinsurgency Training Center in Kabul., abstract: Five historical vignettes from the history of counterinsurgency that look at the paradox of strategy and learning in a conflict environment. These vignettes were used to support initial training in counterinsurgency and attempt to lay the framework for thinking in less "lethal" terms when thinking, planning and designing counterinsurgency operations. Present U.S. military actions are inconsistent with that fundamental of counterinsurgency which establishes winning popular allegiance as the ultimate goal. While conceptually recognizing the total problem in our literature, Americans appear to draw back from its complexity in practice and gravitate toward a faulty premise for its resolution-military destruction...

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Imprint:	Grin Publishing
Country of origin:	Germany
Release date:	February 2011
First published:	September 2013
Authors:	Terry Tucker
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 2mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	36
ISBN-13:	978-3-640-80595-2
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > General Promotions
LSN:	3-640-80595-X
Barcode:	9783640805952

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