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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Autor principal: Smith, M. L. R. (Autor)
Otros Autores: Jones, David Martin
Tipo de documento: Print Libro
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY Columbia University Press 2015
En:Año: 2015
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Palabras clave:
Analyse
Aufstand > Bekämpfung
Begrenzter Krieg
Begriff
Counterinsurgency > History > 21st century
Definition
Konzeption
Kriegführung
Militär
Militärdoktrin
Militärischer Einsatz
Niederschlagung > Politik
Operation > Militär
Strategie
Terrorism > History > 21st century
Theorie
Westliche Welt
Descripción
Sumario: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
Notas:Literaturverz. S. [225] - 246 und Index
Descripción Física:XXIII, 262 S. Reg., Lit. S. 225-246
ISBN:9780231170000