Perspectives on the American Way of War

The U.S. Experience in Irregular Conflict
Herausgeber: Marks, Thomas A.; Bateman, Kirklin J.

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Produktbeschreibung

Perspectives on the American Way of War examines salient cases of American experience in irregular warfare, focusing upon the post-World War II era. This book asks why recent misfires have emerged in irregular warfare from an institutional, professional, and academic context which regularly produces evidence that there is in fact no lack of understanding of both irregular challenges and correct responses. Expert contributors explore the reasoning behind the inability to achieve victory, however defined, and argue that what security professionals have failed to fully recognize, even today, is that what is at issue is not warfare suffused with politics but rather the very opposite, politics suffused with warfare. Perspectives on the American Way of War will be of great interest to scholars of war and conflict studies, strategic and military studies, insurgency and counterinsurgency, and terrorism and counterterrorism. The book was originally published as a special issue of Small Wars & Insurgencies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 578g
• ISBN-13: 9780367406882
• ISBN-10: 0367406888
• Artikelnr.: 58053860

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Perspectives on the American way of war: the U.S. experience
in irregular conflict Thomas A. Marks and Kirklin J. Bateman 1. The Mexican
War: frontier expansion and selective incursion Craig A. Deare 2. Birth of
the Cold War: irregular warfare first blood in Greece Andrew Novo 3.
Organizing for the 'gray zone' fight: early Cold War realities and the
CIA's Directorate of Operations David P. Oakley 4. Counterinsurgency in
Vietnam - schizophrenia until too late Rufus Phillips 5. Turning gangsters
into allies: the American way of war in Northern Afghanistan Matthew P.
Dearing 6. Iraq, 2003-2011: succeeding to fail Jeanne Godfroy and Liam
Collins 7. The American way of war in Africa: the case of Niger LTC Joseph
Guido 8. Too little, too late: protecting American soft networks in COIN/CT
Steve Miska and Samuel Romano 9. Systems failure: the US way of irregular
warfare David H. Ucko