Counterinsurgency Wars and the Anglo-American Alliance : The Special Relationship on the Rocks / Andrew Mumford.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mumford, Andrew, 1983- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--Military relations--Great Britain.

United States.

Great Britain--Military relations--United States.

Great Britain.

Counterinsurgency--Great Britain.

Counterinsurgency.

Counterinsurgency--United States.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 241 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : Georgetown University Press, [2017]

Summary:

Andrew Mumford challenges the notion of an actual US-UK "special relationship," the most vaunted, and Mumford says, exaggerated of diplomatic associations in the post-1945 era. This book combines for the first time an analysis of US-UK interaction during major counterinsurgency campaigns since 1945, from Palestine to Iraq and Afghanistan, with a critical examination of the widely perceived diplomatic and military "special relationship." An assessment of each nation's respective private political perceptions and public diplomacy towards the others' conflicts reveals that in actuality there is only a thin layer of "specialness" at work in wars that shaped the postcolonial balance of power, the fight against Communism in the Cold War, and the twenty-first century "War on Terror." This work is especially timely given Britain's changing international relations as a result of Brexit as well as the Chilcot Inquiry about the lead up to the invasion of Iraq in 2003.

Contents:

Introduction : the origins, meaning, and dynamics of the "special relationship"

Empires, old and new : the politics of counterinsurgency

Anglo-American military culture and counterinsurgency

The changing of the guard in the post-war world : counterinsurgency in Palestine and the creation of Israel

The Malayan emergency and America's Asian Cold War

Mayhem in the Mediterranean : counter-insurgency in Cyprus

Middle Eastern 'winds of change' : counterinsurgency in South Arabia

The counterinsurgency phoenix : Britain and America's war in Vietnam

The old country : America and the Northern Irish 'troubles'

'Shoulder to shoulder' in the war in Iraq

Into the hornet's nest : the 'special relationship' during the 'long war' in Afghanistan

Conclusion : the asymmetric alliance : Anglo-American relations then and now.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-222) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781626164932

1626164932

OCLC:

1065276810