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Crossroads of Intervention - Insurgency and Counterinsurgency Lessons from Central America (Hardcover)
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Crossroads of Intervention - Insurgency and Counterinsurgency Lessons from Central America (Hardcover)
Series: Praeger Security International
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The challenges that vex the United States today in Iraq,
Afghanistan, and elsewhere are not altogether as new and unique as
they seem. U.S. involvement in Central America during the 1980s
clearly demonstrated the costs, risks, and limits to intervention
and the use of force in internal conflicts. Much can be learned
today about the nature of irregular warfare from the experiences of
the United States and the other protagonists in Central America
during the final phase of the Cold War. The U.S. perceived a threat
to national security in these wars from determined insurgents with
a compelling revolutionary ideology and powerful allies that linked
them to other conflicts around the world. This strategy and policy
analysis makes a new contribution to irregular warfare theory
through an examination of the origins, strategic dynamics, and
termination of the Sandinista insurrection in Nicaragua, the decade
long counterinsurgency of the Salvadoran government against the
FMLN guerrillas, and the concurrent Contra insurgency against the
Sandinistas. Many of the lessons about the fundamental and
recurring nature of irregular warfare are being rediscovered in the
current challenges of radical Islam, Iraq, Afghanistan, and
elsewhere, despite the great differences in circumstance, culture,
and geography. In the Central American case, three successive
Presidents encountered serious domestic controversy over U.S.
policies and refrained from sending U.S. combat troops to intervene
directly. Most importantly, they prudently heeded warnings that
internal wars of all types are rarely subject to military
solutions, because their natures are equally and fundamentally
political. Greentree presents hisargument as a strategy and policy
case study of the civil wars in Nicaragua and El Salvador during
the final decade of the Cold War. The book comprises an examination
of the origins, strategic dynamics, and termination of these wars
from the points of view of the main participants--Nicaragua, El
Salvador, Cuba, the Soviet Union, and the United States. It also
develops a general conceptual framework for understanding the
nature of insurgency, counterinsurgency, revolution, and
intervention that builds on classic strategic theory and
contemporary thought on irregular warfare. From the perspective of
global superpower conflict, the wars in Central America were
peripheral "small wars" or "low intensity conflicts." However, for
the internal protagonists these were total and bloody wars for
survival. Involvement in such wars has been cyclical in the U.S.
experience, and it is misfortunate, if not tragic, that the greatly
similar problems encountered across widely varying circumstances
are quickly forgotten.
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