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Publisher
Columbia University Press
ISBN-10
0231170009
ISBN-13
9780231170000
eBay Product ID (ePID)
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Product Key Features

Number of Pages
272 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Political Impossibility of Modern Counterinsurgency : Strategic Problems, Puzzles, and Paradoxes
Publication Year
2015
Subject
Terrorism, Revolutionary, International Relations / General, World / Middle Eastern
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Political Science, History
Author
David Jones, M. L. R Smith
Series
Columbia Studies in Terrorism and Irregular Warfare Ser.
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Hardcover

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2014-025193
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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.
Dewey Edition
23
Grade From
College Graduate Student
Dewey Decimal
355.02/18
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
Synopsis
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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U241.S64 2015

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