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Democratic Counterinsurgents - How Democracies Can Prevail in Irregular Warfare (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
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Democratic Counterinsurgents - How Democracies Can Prevail in Irregular Warfare (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
Series: Rethinking Political Violence
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This book explores the ways in which democracies can win
counterinsurgencies when they implement a proper strategy. At a
time when the USA is retrenching from two bungled foreign wars that
involved deadly insurgent uprisings, this is a particularly
important argument. Succumbing to the trauma of those engagements
and drawing the wrong conclusions about counterinsurgency can only
lead to further defeat in the future. Rather than assuming that
counterinsurgency is ineffective, it is crucial to understand that
a conventional response to an insurgent challenge is likely to
fail. Counterinsurgency must be applied from the beginning, and if
done properly can be highly effective, even when used by democratic
regimes. In fact, because such regimes are often wealthier; have
more experience at institution-building and functional governance;
are more pluralistic in nature and therefore enjoy higher levels of
legitimacy than do autocracies, democracies may have considerable
advantages in counterinsurgency warfare. Rather than give up in
despair, democracies should learn to leverage these advantages and
implement them against future insurgencies.
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