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The Coin Conundrum - The Future of Counterinsurgency And U.S. Land Power (Paperback)
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The Coin Conundrum - The Future of Counterinsurgency And U.S. Land Power (Paperback)
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Loot Price R458
Discovery Miles 4 580
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Counterinsurgency (COIN) has once again become the subject of
contentious debate within the U.S. Army. Its supporters insist that
the new approach enshrined in the U.S. Army/Marine Corps Field
Manual (FM) 3-24, Counterinsurgency, led coalition forces to turn
the tide of the campaign in Iraq. Critics argue that the surge and
the end of the Shia uprising, not COIN, led to the dramatic decline
in violence from 2006-2009. The failure of the new approach in
Afghanistan, they claim, supports their argument that expeditionary
COIN does not work. How this debate gets resolved could have
significant implications for U.S. Army force structure in a time of
shrinking defense budgets. The author, Dr. Thomas R. Mockaitis,
considers what role, if any, COIN should play in the Army of the
future. He examines the U.S. military's historical experience with
intrastate conflict as background for understanding the wars in
Afghanistan and Iraq. He then reviews the current debate over
COIN...
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