Counterinsurgency in Crisis

Counterinsurgency in Crisis
Author: Robert Egnell
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2013-10-08
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0231535414

Long considered the masters of counterinsurgency, the British military encountered significant problems in Iraq and Afghanistan when confronted with insurgent violence. In their effort to apply the principles and doctrines of past campaigns, they failed to prevent Basra and Helmand from descending into lawlessness, criminality, and violence. By juxtaposing the deterioration of these situations against Britain's celebrated legacy of counterinsurgency, this investigation identifies both the contributions and limitations of traditional tactics in such settings, exposing a disconcerting gap between ambitions and resources, intent and commitment. Building upon this detailed account of the Basra and Helmand campaigns, this volume conducts an unprecedented assessment of British military institutional adaptation in response to operations gone awry. In calling attention to the enduring effectiveness of insurgent methods and the threat posed by undergoverned spaces, David H. Ucko and Robert Egnell underscore the need for military organizations to meet the irregular challenges of future wars in new ways.

Modern Warfare

Modern Warfare
Author: Roger Trinquier
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Total Pages: 131
Release: 1964
Genre: France
ISBN: 142891689X

Counterinsurgency

Counterinsurgency
Author: David Kilcullen
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2010-05-19
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0199746257

David Kilcullen is one of the world's most influential experts on counterinsurgency and modern warfare, a ground-breaking theorist whose ideas "are revolutionizing military thinking throughout the west" (Washington Post). Indeed, his vision of modern warfare powerfully influenced the United States' decision to rethink its military strategy in Iraq and implement "the Surge," now recognized as a dramatic success. In Counterinsurgency, Kilcullen brings together his most salient writings on this vitally important topic. Here is a picture of modern warfare by someone who has had his boots on the ground in some of today's worst trouble spots-including Iraq and Afghanistan-and who has been studying counterinsurgency since 1985. Filled with down-to-earth, common-sense insights, this book is the definitive account of counterinsurgency, indispensable for all those interested in making sense of our world in an age of terror.

Crisis of the State

Crisis of the State
Author: Bruce Kapferer
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2009-04-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1845459091

Analyzing both historical contexts and geographical locations, this volume explores the continuous reformation of state power and its potential in situations of violent conflict. The state, otherwise understood as an abstract and transcendent concept in many works on globalization in political philosophy, is instead located and analyzed here as an embedded part of lived reality. This relationship to the state is exposed as an integral factor to the formation of the social – whether in Africa, the Middle East, South America or the United States. Through the examination of these particular empirical settings of war or war-like situations, the book further argues for the continued importance of the state in shifting social and political circumstances. In doing so, the authors provide a critical contribution to debates within a broad spectrum of fields that are concerned with the future of the state, the nature of sovereignty, and globalization.

Insurgency and Counterinsurgency

Insurgency and Counterinsurgency
Author: Jeremy Black
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2016-07-29
Genre: History
ISBN: 1442256338

This timely book offers a world history of insurgencies and of counterinsurgency warfare. Jeremy Black moves beyond the conventional Western-centric narrative, arguing that it is crucial to ground contemporary experiences in Afghanistan and Iraq in a global framework. Unlike other studies that begin with the American and French revolutions, this book reaches back to antiquity to trace the pre-modern origins of war within states. Interweaving thematic and chronological narratives, Black probes the enduring linkages between beliefs, events, and people on the one hand and changes over time on the other hand. He shows the extent to which power politics, technologies, and ideologies have evolved, creating new parameters and paradigms that have framed both governmental and public views. Tracing insurgencies ranging from China to Africa to Latin America, Black highlights the widely differing military and political dimensions of each conflict. He weighs how, and why, lessons were “learned” or, rather, asserted, in both insurgency and counterinsurgency warfare. At every stage, he considers lessons learned by contemporaries, the ways in which norms developed within militaries and societies, and their impact on doctrine and policy. His sweeping study of insurrectionary warfare and its counterinsurgency counterpart will be essential reading for all students of military history.

Diplomatic Counterinsurgency

Diplomatic Counterinsurgency
Author: Philippe Leroux-Martin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2014
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107020034

This book provides an eyewitness account of a key political crisis triggered by the international community in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2007.

The Taliban and the Crisis of Afghanistan

The Taliban and the Crisis of Afghanistan
Author: Robert D. Crews
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 443
Release: 2009-06-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 0674030028

[This book] explores ... how has a seemingly anachronistic band of religious zealots managed to retain a tenacious foothold in the struggle for Afghanistan's future ... [It] investigates ... questions relating to the character of the Taliban, its evolution over time, and its capacity to affect the future of the region.--Dust jacket.

The Counterrevolution

The Counterrevolution
Author: Bernard E. Harcourt
Publisher: Basic Books
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2018-02-27
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1541697278

A distinguished political theorist sounds the alarm about the counterinsurgency strategies used to govern Americans Militarized police officers with tanks and drones. Pervasive government surveillance and profiling. Social media that distract and track us. All of these, contends Bernard E. Harcourt, are facets of a new and radical governing paradigm in the United States -- one rooted in the modes of warfare originally developed to suppress anticolonial revolutions and, more recently, to prosecute the war on terror. The Counterrevolution is a penetrating and disturbing account of the rise of counterinsurgency, first as a military strategy but increasingly as a way of ruling ordinary Americans. Harcourt shows how counterinsurgency's principles -- bulk intelligence collection, ruthless targeting of minorities, pacifying propaganda -- have taken hold domestically despite the absence of any radical uprising. This counterrevolution against phantom enemies, he argues, is the tyranny of our age. Seeing it clearly is the first step to resisting it effectively.

Waging Insurgent Warfare

Waging Insurgent Warfare
Author: Seth G. Jones
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2017
Genre: History
ISBN: 0190600861

An analysis of insurgent warfare, looking at factors that contribute to insurgency.

Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in South Asia

Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in South Asia
Author: Moeed Yusuf
Publisher: United States Institute of Peace Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre: Counterinsurgency
ISBN: 9781601271914

In Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in South Asia, ten experts native to South Asia consider the nature of intrastate insurgent movements from a peacebuilding perspective. Case studies on India, Pakistan, Nepal, and Sri Lanka lend new insights into the dynamics of each conflict and how they might be prevented or resolved.