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The Political Impossibility of Modern Counterinsurgency

- Strategic Problems, Puzzles, and Paradoxes
Af: M.L.R. Smith, David Jones Engelsk Hardback

The Political Impossibility of Modern Counterinsurgency

- Strategic Problems, Puzzles, and Paradoxes
Af: M.L.R. Smith, David Jones Engelsk Hardback
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The counterinsurgency (COIN) paradigm dominates military and political conduct in contemporary Western strategic thought. It assumes future wars will unfold as "low intensity" conflicts within rather than between states, requiring specialized military training and techniques. COIN is understood as a logical, effective, and democratically palatable method for confronting insurgency-a discrete set of practices that, through the actions of knowledgeable soldiers and under the guidance of an expert elite, creates lasting results. Through an extensive investigation into COIN's theories, methods, and outcomes, this book undermines enduring claims about COIN's success while revealing its hidden meanings and effects. Interrogating the relationship between counterinsurgency and war, the authors question the supposed uniqueness of COIN's attributes and try to resolve the puzzle of its intellectual identity. Is COIN a strategy, a doctrine, a theory, a military practice, or something else? Their analysis ultimately exposes a critical paradox within COIN: while it ignores the vital political dimensions of war, it is nevertheless the product of a misplaced ideological faith in modernization.
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The counterinsurgency (COIN) paradigm dominates military and political conduct in contemporary Western strategic thought. It assumes future wars will unfold as "low intensity" conflicts within rather than between states, requiring specialized military training and techniques. COIN is understood as a logical, effective, and democratically palatable method for confronting insurgency-a discrete set of practices that, through the actions of knowledgeable soldiers and under the guidance of an expert elite, creates lasting results. Through an extensive investigation into COIN's theories, methods, and outcomes, this book undermines enduring claims about COIN's success while revealing its hidden meanings and effects. Interrogating the relationship between counterinsurgency and war, the authors question the supposed uniqueness of COIN's attributes and try to resolve the puzzle of its intellectual identity. Is COIN a strategy, a doctrine, a theory, a military practice, or something else? Their analysis ultimately exposes a critical paradox within COIN: while it ignores the vital political dimensions of war, it is nevertheless the product of a misplaced ideological faith in modernization.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 272
ISBN-13: 9780231170000
Indbinding: Hardback
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ISBN-10: 0231170009
Kategori: Terrorisme og væbnet kamp
Udg. Dato: 19 maj 2015
Længde: 26mm
Bredde: 164mm
Højde: 238mm
Forlag: Columbia University Press
Oplagsdato: 19 maj 2015
Forfatter(e): M.L.R. Smith, David Jones
Forfatter(e) M.L.R. Smith, David Jones

Kategori Terrorisme og væbnet kamp

ISBN-13 9780231170000

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Hardback

Sider 272

Udgave

Længde 26mm

Bredde 164mm

Højde 238mm

Udg. Dato 19 maj 2015

Oplagsdato 19 maj 2015

Forlag Columbia University Press

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