Controversial new history of counterinsurgency which challenges its claims as an effective strategy of waging war.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1. A 'happy combination of clemency with firmness'. The small wars prologue; 2. The road from Sedan; 3. The paroxysms of imperial might in the shadow of the Great War; 4. From Tipperary to Tel Aviv: British counterinsurgency in the shadow of World War II; 5. From small wars to La Guerre Subversive. The radicalization and collapse of French counterinsurgency; 6. Vietnam, counterinsurgency, and the American way of war; 7. 'A conspiracy of heroes' - revolution and counterinsurgency in Latin America; 8. Building the 'most successful counterinsurgency school' - COIN as the British way of war; 9. Britain's thirty years' war in Northern Ireland; 10. Vietnam with a happy ending - Iraq and 'The Surge'; 11. Conclusion; Bibliography.
