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The art of insurgency : American military policy and the failure of strategy in Southeast Asia / Donald W. Hamilton ; foreword by Cecil B. Currey.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hamilton, Donald W., 1959-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Counterinsurgency.
- United States--Military policy.
- United States.
- Military policy.
- Vietnam--History--1945-1975.
- Vietnam.
- History.
- Philippines--History--1946-1986.
- Philippines.
- Malaya--History--Malayan Emergency, 1948-1960.
- Malaya.
- Physical Description:
- xxiii, 186 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 1998.
- Summary:
- This account of America's post-1945 experiences with irregular war, coupled with a description of insurgency as both a method and type of war-making, elucidates the strategic military reasons for the American defeat in Vietnam.
- Contents:
- Insurgency and American Military Doctrine: An Introduction 1
- 1. Explaining Insurgency 13
- 2. An Analysis of Two Postwar Asian Insurgencies 39
- 3. The First Vietnamese Insurgency, 1945-1954 65
- 4. Seeds of American Commitment 87
- 5. The Second Vietnamese Insurgency: Phase One 97
- 6. The Second Vietnamese Insurgency: Phase Two 115
- 7. Secondary Insurgency and the American Reaction 129.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [165]-175) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0275957349
- OCLC:
- 35599925
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