The political impossibility of modern counterinsurgency : strategic problems, puzzles, and paradoxes /
"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...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2015]
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| Series: | Columbia studies in terrorism and irregular warfare.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- What is counterinsurgency mean to counter? The puzzle of insurgency
- Counterinsurgency and strategy: problems and paradoxes
- Counterinsurgency and the ideology of modernization
- The paradoxes of counterinsurgency and globalization
- The illusion of tradition: myths and paradoxes of British counterinsurgency
- The puzzle of counterinsurgency and escalation.
