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Counterinsurgency : exposing the myths of the new way of war / Douglas Porch.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Porch, Douglas.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Counterinsurgency--Case studies.
- Counterinsurgency.
- Low-intensity conflicts (Military science)--Case studies.
- Low-intensity conflicts (Military science).
- Counterinsurgency--History.
- History.
- Genre:
- Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 434 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
- Contents:
- A "happy combination of clemency with firmness." The small wars prologue
- The road from Sedan
- The paroxysms of imperial might in the shadow of the Great war
- From Tipperary to Tel Aviv: British counterinsurgency in the shadow of World War II
- From small wars to la guerre subversive. The radicalization and collapse of French counterinsurgency
- Vietnam, counterinsurgency, and the American way of war
- "A conspiracy of heroes"
- Revolution and counterinsurgency in Latin America
- Building the "most successful counter-insurgency school"
- COIN as the British way of war
- Britain's thirty years' war in Northern Ireland
- Vietnam with a happy ending
- Iraq and "the surge"
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [400]-416) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1107027381
- 9781107027381
- 1107699843
- 9781107699847
- OCLC:
- 813414777
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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