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- The Political Impossibility of Modern Counterinsurgency
- Publication Name
- Political Impossibility of Modern Counterinsurgency : Strategic Problems, Puzzles, and Paradoxes
- Title
- The Political Impossibility of Modern Counterinsurgency
- Subtitle
- Strategic Problems, Puzzles, and Paradoxes
- Format
- Hardcover
- ISBN-10
- 0231170009
- EAN
- 9780231170000
- ISBN
- 9780231170000
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Genre
- Law & Politics
- Release Year
- 2015
- Release Date
- 19/05/2015
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.1in
- Item Length
- 1in
- Series
- Columbia Studies in Terrorism and Irregular Warfare Ser.
- Publication Year
- 2015
- Type
- Textbook
- Item Width
- 0.7in
- Item Weight
- 21.5 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 272 Pages
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The counterinsurgency (COIN) paradigm dominates military and political conduct in contemporary Western strategic thought. It assumes future wars will unfold as "low intensity" conflicts within rather than between states, requiring specialized military training and techniques. COIN is understood as a logical, effective, and democratically palatable method for confronting insurgency--a discrete set of practices that, through the actions of knowledgeable soldiers and under the guidance of an expert elite, creates lasting results. Through an extensive investigation into COIN's theories, methods, and outcomes, this book undermines enduring claims about COIN's success while revealing its hidden meanings and effects. Interrogating the relationship between counterinsurgency and war, the authors question the supposed uniqueness of COIN's attributes and try to resolve the puzzle of its intellectual identity. Is COIN a strategy, a doctrine, a theory, a military practice, or something else? Their analysis ultimately exposes a critical paradox within COIN: while it ignores the vital political dimensions of war, it is nevertheless the product of a misplaced ideological faith in modernization.
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Columbia University Press
ISBN-10
0231170009
ISBN-13
9780231170000
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205624650
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Publication Name
Political Impossibility of Modern Counterinsurgency : Strategic Problems, Puzzles, and Paradoxes
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
2015
Series
Columbia Studies in Terrorism and Irregular Warfare Ser.
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
272 Pages
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Item Length
1in
Item Height
0.1in
Item Width
0.7in
Item Weight
21.5 Oz
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U241.S64 2015
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College Graduate Student
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A penetrating study... The Political Impossibility of Modern Counterinsurgency shows itself to be confident and decisive in its sceptical outlook, and a powerful and authoritative contribution to the literature of counter-insurgency., Concise, impeccably well structured and penetrating, this book provides the most insightful analysis yet of the theoretical underpinnings of insurgency warfare, and what this means for contemporary armed conflict., As the 'success' of counterinsurgency in Iraq and Afghanistan is increasingly called into question, The Political Impossibility of Modern Counterinsurgency offers valuable insights that are likely to be both timely and enduring. The authors demonstrate with admirable lucidity that 21st century counterinsurgency has often been a catechism rather than a real strategy, with technocratic and modernizing zeal frequently blinding its practitioners to historical and contemporary reality. Vital for those seeking to understand the past, present, and future of counterinsurgency in theory and practice.
Table of Content
Acknowledgments Introduction 1. What Is Counterinsurgency Meant to Counter? The Puzzle of Insurgency 2. Counterinsurgency and Strategy: Problems and Paradoxes 3. Counterinsurgency and the Ideology of Modernization 4. The Paradoxes of Counterinsurgency and Globalization 5. The Illusion of Tradition: Myths and Paradoxes of British Counterinsurgency 6. The Puzzle of Counterinsurgency and Escalation Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
Copyright Date
2015
Topic
Terrorism, Revolutionary, International Relations / General, World / Middle Eastern
Lccn
2014-025193
Dewey Decimal
355.02/18
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition
23
Genre
History, Political Science
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