Counterinsurgency in Modern Warfare

by Daniel Marston (Editor), Carter Malkasian (Editor)

Overview

A fascinating discussion of the development of counterinsurgency by experts in the field.

Throughout history armies of occupation and civil power have been faced with the challenges of insurgency. British and American involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan has highlighted this form of conflict in the modern world.

Armies have had to adopt new doctrines and tactics to deal with the problems of insurgency and diverse counterinsurgency strategies have been developed. Here, fourteen authors examine the development of counterinsurgency from the early 20th century to the present.

Including information on the Arab-Israeli conflict, Afghanistan and Iraq this book is a timely and accessible survey of a critical facet of modern warfare. This new paperback edition features a revised introduction, updated chapters on Iraq and Afghanistan and a completely new chapter on Columbia by expert Thomas Marks.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781849086523
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	01/01/2011
Series:	General Military
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	360
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Daniel Marston is a Research Fellow at the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at the Australian National University and a Visiting Fellow with the Oxford Leverhulme Programme on the Changing Character of War. Dr Marston was responsible for overseeing the counterinsurgency modules for Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and the British Army. In 2005 he was appointed a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Carter Malkasian directs the Small Wars Program at the Center for Naval Analyses. He completed his doctorate in the history of war at Oxford University.
Daniel Marston is the Director of the Secretary of Defense Strategic Thinkers Program and Professor at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies. He is an Honorary Professor at the Australian National University, and previously held the Ike Skelton Distinguished Chair in the Art of War at the US Army Command and General Staff College. He has been a Visiting Fellow, on multiple occasions, with the Leverhulme Changing Character of War Program at the University of Oxford, and was previously Senior Lecturer in War Studies at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. He has been a special advisor with the US Army, USMC and British Army, and has published several books, one of which, Phoenix from the Ashes, won the Templer Medal Book Prize in 2003. He received a BA and MA from McGill University and a PhD from Oxford University, and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
Carter Malkasian is currently the Chair of the Defense Analysis Department at the Naval Postgraduate School, California. He has published several books, including the critically acclaimed The American War in Afghanistan: A History (Oxford University Press, 2021). He completed his doctorate on the history of wars of attrition, specializing in the Korean War, at Oxford University.

CARTER MALKASIAN is an analyst at the CNA Corporation, a federally funded research and development center in Washington, D.C..

Table of Contents

Contributors
Introduction

1 In Aid of the Civil Power: Britain, Ireland and Palestine 1916–48 by Professor Charles Townshend
2 Counterinsurgency in the Philippines 1898–1954 by Professor Anthony James Joes
3 Few Carrots and a Lot of Sticks: German Anti-Partisan Warfare in World War Two by Dr Peter Lieb
4 French Imperial Warfare 1945–62 by Professor Douglas Porch
5 From Search and Destroy to Hearts and Minds: The Evolution of British Strategy in Malaya 1948–60 by Professor Richard Stubbs
6 Counterinsurgency in Vietnam: American Organizational Culture and Learning by Dr John A. Nagl
7 Red Wolves and British Lions: The Conflict in Aden by Jonathan Walker
8 Britain's Longest War: Northern Ireland 1967–2007 by Colonel Richard Iron
9 The British Counterinsurgency Campaign in Dhofar 1965–75 by Professor Ian F. W. Beckett
10 Countering the Chimurenga: The Rhodesian Counterinsurgency Campaign 1962–80 by Dr J. R. T. Wood
11 Regaining the Initiative: Colombia Versus the Farc Insurgency by Dr Thomas A. Marks
12 The Israel Defense Forces and the Al-Aqsa Intifada: When Tactical Virtuosity Meets Strategic Disappointment by Dr Sergio Catignani
13 Realizing the Extent of Our Errors and Forging the Road Ahead: Afghanistan 2001–2010 by Dr Daniel Marston
14 Counterinsurgency in Iraq: May 2003–January 2010 by Dr Carter Malkasian

Endnotes
Bibliography
Index

Editorial Reviews

Denial is the subtext of Counterinsurgency in Modern Warfare. The book's editors, Daniel Marston and Carter Malkasian, present a series of lucid, expert essays on the experiences of conventional military forces adapting to an insurgency. The contributors discuss the British in Ireland, Palestien and Malaya; the Frend in Vietnam and Algeria; the Israelis in the West Bank; and the Americans in all sorts of places... [We] need to add the subject of counterinsurgency to the canon of Army learning, at long last, and never again forget its lesson. We can make a start with this excellent primer of a book.” —Robert D. Kaplan, The Wall Street Journal (April 10, 2008)

“Counterinsurgency in Modern Warfare is a timely, serious, and yet accessible survey, presented by an amazing of experts, of a critical facet of modern warfare and present-day global conflict.” —sirreadalot.org (April 2008)

“Conflicts are outlined along with the strategies that proved successful, making Counterinsurgency in Modern Warfare a fine choice for any serious military library.” —The Midwest Book Review (June 2008)

From the Publisher