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The New Counterinsurgency Era: Transforming the U.S. Military for Modern Wars

Door David H. Ucko

Categorie
Algemeen Militaria
Boeknummer
#266772
Titel
The New Counterinsurgency Era: Transforming the U.S. Military for Modern Wars
Auteur
Ucko, David H.
Boektype
Paperback
Uitgeverij
Georgetown University Press
Jaar van uitgave
2009
ISBN10
158901488X
ISBN13
9781589014886
Taal
Engels
Samenvatting


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 counterinsurge... (Lees verder)ncy 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.
Pagina's
258
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 15,00

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