Austin Long

The Soul of Armies (eBook, ePUB)

Counterinsurgency Doctrine and Military Culture in the US and UK

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In The Soul of Armies Austin Long compares and contrasts counterinsurgency operations during the Cold War and in recent years by three organizations: the US Army, the US Marine Corps, and the British Army.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cornell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781501703904
• Artikelnr.: 48790096

Autorenporträt

Austin Long is an Assistant Professor at the School of International and Public Affairs and a Member of the Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies and the Harriman Institute for Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies at Columbia University. He was an analyst and advisor to Coalition forces in Iraq (2007-2008) and Afghanistan (2011 and 2013). He is author of On "Other War": Lessons from Five Decades of RAND Counterinsurgency Research.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Military Doctrine and the Challenge of Counterinsurgency
2. Culture, Doctrine, and Military Professionalization
3. "The Habits and Usages of War": U.S. Army Professionalization, 1865-1962
4. From the Halls of Montezuma: Marine Corps Professionalization, 1865-1960
5. A Family of Regiments: British Army Professionalization, 1856-1948
6. "A Nasty, Untidy Mess": U.S. Counterinsurgency in Vietnam, 1960-71
7. A Natural Experiment in I Corps, 1966-68
8. Out of Africa: British Army Counterinsurgency in Kenya, 1952-56
9. Counterinsurgency in the Land of Two Rivers: The Americans and British
in Iraq, 2003-8
10. Counterinsurgency in Afghanistan, 2003-11
Conclusions