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When the U.S. military invaded Iraq, it lacked a common
understanding of the problems inherent in counterinsurgency
campaigns. It had neither studied them, nor developed doctrine and
tactics to deal with them. It is fair to say that in 2003, most
Army officers knew more about the U.S. Civil War than they did
about counterinsurgency.
"The U.S. Army / Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual "was
written to fill that void. The result of unprecedented
collaboration among top U.S. military experts, scholars, and
practitioners in the field, the manual espouses an approach to
combat that emphasizes constant adaptation and learning, the
importance of decentralized decision-making, the need to understand
local politics and customs, and the key role of intelligence in
winning the support of the population. The manual also emphasizes
the paradoxical and often counterintuitive nature of
counterinsurgency operations: sometimes the more you protect your
forces, the less secure you are; sometimes the more force you use,
the less effective it is; sometimes doing nothing is the best
reaction.
An new introduction by Sarah Sewall, director of the Carr Center
for Human Rights Policy at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government,
places the manual in critical and historical perspective,
explaining the significance and potential impact of this
revolutionary challenge to conventional U.S. military
doctrine.
An attempt by our military to redefine itself in the aftermath of
9/11 and the new world of international terrorism, "The U.S. Army /
Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual "will play a vital role
in American military campaigns for years to come.
The University of Chicago Press willdonate a portion of the
proceeds from this book to the Fisher House Foundation, a
private-public partnership that supports the families of America's
injured servicemen. To learn more about the Fisher House
Foundation, visit www.fisherhouse.org.
"The purpose of this publication is to assist individual service
members, unit commanders, unit leaders, and field sanitation teams
(FSTs) in preventing disease and non-battle injury (DNBI). The
publication provides information on preventive medicine measures
(PMM) for the individual service member as well as essential
information for the unit commander, unit leaders, and FST on
applying unit-level PMM."-From the Preface.
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