Umfang:
1 online resource (269 pages)
ISBN:
9781589017283
Inhalt:
Confronting insurgent violence in Iraq and Afghanistan, the U.S. military has recognized the need to "re-learn" counterinsurgency. But how has the Department of Defense with its mixed efforts responded to this new strategic environment? Has it learned anything from past failures? In The New Counterinsurgency Era, David Ucko examines DoD's institutional obstacles and initially slow response to a changing strategic reality. Ucko also suggests how the military can better prepare for the unique challenges of modern warfare, where it is charged with everything from providing security to supporting reconstruction to establishing basic governance--all while stabilizing conquered territory and engaging with local populations. After briefly surveying the history of American counterinsurgency operations, Ucko focuses on measures the military has taken since 2001 to relearn old lessons about counterinsurgency, to improve its ability to conduct stability operations, to change the institutional bias against counterinsurgency, and to account for successes gained from the learning process.Given the effectiveness of insurgent tactics, the frequency of operations aimed at building local capacity, and the danger of ungoverned spaces acting as havens for hostile groups, the military must acquire new skills to confront irregular threats in future wars. Ucko clearly shows that the opportunity to come to grips with counterinsurgency is matched in magnitude only by the cost of failing to do so.
Inhalt:
Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- List of Abbreviations -- 1 Framing the Reorientation -- 2 A Troubled History -- 3 Revisiting Counterinsurgency -- 4 Innovation under Fire -- 5 Counterinsurgency and the QDR -- 6 FM 3-24 and Operation Fardh Al-Qanoon -- 7 The Ambivalence of the "Surge" -- 8 Innovation or Inertia -- Conclusion: Kicking the Counterinsurgency Syndrome? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- About the Author -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.
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ISBN 9781589014886
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781589014886
Sprache:
Englisch
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https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=537045
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