Counterinsurgency Warfare: Theory and Practice / Edition 1 available in Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 0275993035
- ISBN-13:
- 9780275993030
- Pub. Date:
- 09/05/2000
- Publisher:
- Greenwood Publishing Group, Incorporated
Counterinsurgency Warfare: Theory and Practice / Edition 1
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| ISBN-13: | 9780275993030 |
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| Publisher: | Greenwood Publishing Group, Incorporated |
| Publication date: | 09/05/2000 |
| Series: | PSI Classics of the Counterinsurgency Era Series |
| Edition description: | New Edition |
| Pages: | 128 |
| Sales rank: | 475,909 |
| Product dimensions: | 0.27(w) x 9.21(h) x 6.14(d) |
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I've been to multiple military schools and our focus has largely been on how to win conventional wars. The Principles of War, Warden's Five Rings, etc., etc. are all about conventional ops. We need to ensure all of our schools have a core course on the Principles of Counterinsurgency Warfare. The last school I attended it was an elective course only...
This book, "Counterinsurgency Warfare", should be one of the key texts for military strategists to read on the principles of winning counterinsurgency wars. I think it does superb job in contrasting how fighting an insurgency using a convential warfare mindset will be a losing strategy. America military's fighting strength is in the conventional realm, and we need to make books like this mandatory reading so that we can excel in both realms. I think the lessons learned we've taken from Iraq and Afghanistan in recent years mirror very closely what is taught in this book written in the early 60's.
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Gulua writes the book that is has become "the must" read to get a basic of understanding of Counterinsurgency and how to conduct operations that will be succesful. Even though the book was written over 4o years ago, the principles and concepts remain relative today. It's the principles that allow you to employ counterinsurgeny stragidies no matter where you are. For those that are not in the military it is an easy read and not full of acronyms and terms that are difficult for civilians to understand. I believe it is a must for anyone deploying to Iraq or Afhganistan especially those leaders both NCO's and Officers, and battalion and below. Senior officers at brigade or higher, I believe should have already read this book. It should be read to ROTC as well.
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This is THE BOOK on counterinsurgency warfare, and if you don't believe me, then believe noted Vietnam expert Bernard Fall (author of Street Without Joy and Hell in a Very Small Place). Fall considered it the best 'how-to' manual on counterinsurgency warfare. If the folks who started this war had only read two pages (Page 51 and 52) no one would have ever heard of Abu Garaib and Guantanamo. Only 143 pages, but it has all the answers.
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