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Counterinsurgency
Language: en
Pages: 449
Authors: Douglas Porch
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-07-11 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Controversial new history of counterinsurgency which challenges its claims as an effective strategy of waging war.
The Counter-insurgency Myth
Language: en
Pages: 218
Authors: Andrew Mumford
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012 - Publisher: Routledge

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This book examines the complex practice of counter-insurgency warfare through the prism of the British experiences of irregular war in the post-war era, from Ma
Puncturing the Counterinsurgency Myth
Language: en
Pages: 40
Authors: Andrew Mumford
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011 - Publisher: Strategic Studies Institute U. S. Army War College

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This monograph holds that an aura of mythology has surrounded conventional academic and military perceptions of British performance in the realm of irregular wa
Hearts and Minds
Language: en
Pages: 306
Authors: Hannah Gurman
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-10-01 - Publisher: New Press, The

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The first book of its kind, Hearts and Minds is a scathing response to the grand narrative of U.S. counterinsurgency, in which warfare is defined not by militar
Conflict of Myths
Language: en
Pages: 322
Authors: Larry E. Cable
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1988-08-01 - Publisher: NYU Press

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"Conflict of Myths is an in-depth devastating critique of how the U.S. government and its military services approached and misconceived the problems of guerilla