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The New Counterinsurgency Era: Transforming the U.S. Military for Modern Wars

The New Counterinsurgency Era: Transforming the U.S. Military for Modern Wars

John A. Nagl
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The U.S. military, in its outlook and training, has traditionally focused on preparing to fight conventional wars, despite also having a long history of being dispatched to fight insurgencies. Counterinsurgency, stability operations, and peace keeping traditionally have been seen as lesser operations, distractions from the military's core purpose. But the occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq have necessitated that American military planners re-learn counterinsurgency strategies and tactics that were largely set aside after the Vietnam War. David Ucko believes strongly that the U.S. military must not repeat the mistake of forgetting counterinsurgency lessons after the current wars. How deep-running and effective has the learning process been? Will it last beyond the current wars? This book seeks to provide early answers to these questions by briefly sureying the history of American counterinsurgency operations and then examining the institutional learning process in the U.S. military community since 2001. Ucko's conclusion is two fold. On the one hand, the learning process is targeted and very promising; informed directly by the campaign in Iraq, counterinsurgency is attracting unprecedented attention within the Pentagon. At the same time, this learning period has also fallen short of producing the type of deep-running change needed to transform the US military's stance toward counterinsurgency.
Language
English
Pages
258
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Georgetown University Press
Release
July 02, 2009
ISBN
158901488X
ISBN 13
9781589014886

The New Counterinsurgency Era: Transforming the U.S. Military for Modern Wars

John A. Nagl
3.4/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
The U.S. military, in its outlook and training, has traditionally focused on preparing to fight conventional wars, despite also having a long history of being dispatched to fight insurgencies. Counterinsurgency, stability operations, and peace keeping traditionally have been seen as lesser operations, distractions from the military's core purpose. But the occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq have necessitated that American military planners re-learn counterinsurgency strategies and tactics that were largely set aside after the Vietnam War. David Ucko believes strongly that the U.S. military must not repeat the mistake of forgetting counterinsurgency lessons after the current wars. How deep-running and effective has the learning process been? Will it last beyond the current wars? This book seeks to provide early answers to these questions by briefly sureying the history of American counterinsurgency operations and then examining the institutional learning process in the U.S. military community since 2001. Ucko's conclusion is two fold. On the one hand, the learning process is targeted and very promising; informed directly by the campaign in Iraq, counterinsurgency is attracting unprecedented attention within the Pentagon. At the same time, this learning period has also fallen short of producing the type of deep-running change needed to transform the US military's stance toward counterinsurgency.
Language
English
Pages
258
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Georgetown University Press
Release
July 02, 2009
ISBN
158901488X
ISBN 13
9781589014886

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