Puncturing the counterinsurgency myth : Britain and irregular warfare in the past, present, and future / Andrew Mumford.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Mumford, Andrew

Contributor:

Army War College (U.S.). Strategic Studies Institute

Series:

Advancing strategic thought series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

War (Philosophy).

Military doctrine--Great Britain.

Military doctrine.

Counterinsurgency--Great Britain.

Counterinsurgency.

Great Britain.

Genre:

History

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 26 pages).

Other Title:

Britain and irregular warfare in the past, present, and future

Place of Publication:

Carlisle, PA : Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, [2011]

Summary:

This monograph holds that an aura of mythology has surrounded conventional academic and military perceptions of British performance in the realm of irregular warfare. It identifies 10 myths regarding British counterinsurgency performance and seeks to puncture them by critically assessing the efficacy of the British way of counterinsurgency from the much-vaunted, yet over-hyped, Malayan Emergency to the withdrawal of combat troops from Iraq in 2009. It challenges perceptions of the British military as an effective learning institution when it comes to irregular warfare and critically assesses traditional British counterinsurgency strategic maxims regarding hearts and minds and minimum force.

Contents:

Introduction

Myth #1 : the British military is an effective learning institution

Myth #2 : British civil-military COIN planning is strategically perceptive

Myth #3 : the British military has flexibly adapted to the demands of COIN

Myth #4 : the British military has an ingrained educational approach to COIN

Myth #5 : Iraq represented the zenith of 60 years worth of modern COIN learning

Myth #6 : the British can do COIN alone

Myth #7 : the British "don't talk to terrorists"

Myth #8 : "hearts and minds" and "minimum force" are sacrosanct elements of the British way of COIN

Myth #9 : the Malayan emergency is the archetypal COIN campaign

Myth #10 : the British military are the ultimate COIN practitioners

The value of the British experience.

Notes:

Title from title screen (viewed Sept. 29, 2011).

"September 2011."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 23-26).

Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011.

Other Format:

Print version: Mumford, Andrew, 1983- Puncturing the counterinsurgency myth.

Online version: Mumford, Andrew. Puncturing the counterinsurgency myth.

ISBN:

1584875097

9781584875093

OCLC:

755033076

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