The political impossibility of modern counterinsurgency: strategic problems, puzzles, and paradoxes

1. What is Counterinsurgency Meant to Counter? The Puzzle of Insurgency 1. - 2. Counterinsurgency and Strategy: Problems and Paradoxes 29. - 3. Counterinsurgency and the Ideology of Modernization 55. - 4. The Paradoxes of Counterinsurgency and Globalization 89. - 5. The Illusion of Tradition: Myths...

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Main Author: Smith, M. L. R. 1963- (Author)
Contributors: Jones, David Martin 1951-2024
Format: Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Columbia University Press 2015
In:Year: 2015
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Keywords:
Counterinsurgency > History > 21st century
Terrorism > History > 21st century
Kriegführung
Theorie
Strategie
Niederschlagung > Politik
Begrenzter Krieg
Militärischer Einsatz
Konzeption
Militärdoktrin
Militär
Operation > Militär
Definition
Begriff
Analyse
Westliche Welt
Aufstand > Bekämpfung
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Summary:1. What is Counterinsurgency Meant to Counter? The Puzzle of Insurgency 1. - 2. Counterinsurgency and Strategy: Problems and Paradoxes 29. - 3. Counterinsurgency and the Ideology of Modernization 55. - 4. The Paradoxes of Counterinsurgency and Globalization 89. - 5. The Illusion of Tradition: Myths and Paradoxes of British Counterinsurgency 119. - 6. The Puzzle of Counterinsurgency and Escalation 151. - Conclusion 179
Item Description:Literaturverz. S. [225] - 246 und Index
Physical Description:XXIII, 262 S., Reg., Lit. S. 225-246
ISBN:9780231170000