Bad Strategies: How Major Powers Fail Counterinsurgency

It is the new way of war: Everywhere our military tries to make inroads, insurgents flout us-and seem to get the better of the strategists making policy and battle plans. In this book, an expert with both scholarly and military experience in the field looks at cases of counterinsurgency gone wrong. By examining the failures of strategies against insurgents in Algeria, Cyprus, Vietnam, and Iraq, Lieutenant Colonel James S. Corum offers rare and much-needed insight into what can go wrong in s...