Counterinsurgency Vignettes

Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Political Science, International, International Security
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Author: Terry Tucker ISBN: 9783640806515
Publisher: GRIN Publishing Publication: January 20, 2011
Imprint: GRIN Publishing Language: English
Author: Terry Tucker
ISBN: 9783640806515
Publisher: GRIN Publishing
Publication: January 20, 2011
Imprint: GRIN Publishing
Language: English

Essay from the year 2011 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict Studies, Security, grade: None, Counterinsurgency Training Center Kabul, language: English, abstract: Five historical vignettes from the history of counterinsurgency that look at the paradox of strategy and learning in a conflict environment. These vignettes were used to support initial training in counterinsurgency and attempt to lay the framework for thinking in less 'lethal' terms when thinking, planning and designing counterinsurgency operations. Present U.S. military actions are inconsistent with that fundamental of counterinsurgency which establishes winning popular allegiance as the ultimate goal. While conceptually recognizing the total problem in our literature, Americans appear to draw back from its complexity in practice and gravitate toward a faulty premise for its resolution-military destruction...

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Essay from the year 2011 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict Studies, Security, grade: None, Counterinsurgency Training Center Kabul, language: English, abstract: Five historical vignettes from the history of counterinsurgency that look at the paradox of strategy and learning in a conflict environment. These vignettes were used to support initial training in counterinsurgency and attempt to lay the framework for thinking in less 'lethal' terms when thinking, planning and designing counterinsurgency operations. Present U.S. military actions are inconsistent with that fundamental of counterinsurgency which establishes winning popular allegiance as the ultimate goal. While conceptually recognizing the total problem in our literature, Americans appear to draw back from its complexity in practice and gravitate toward a faulty premise for its resolution-military destruction...

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