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The Political Impossibility of Modern Counterinsurgency

Hardcover • 2015 • 1. edition

The Political Impossibility of Modern Counterinsurgency

By M. L. R. Smith, David Jones

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The counterinsurgency (COIN) paradigm dominates military and political conduct in contemporary Western strategic thought. It assumes future wars will unfold as "low intensity" conflicts within rather than between states, requiring specialized military training and techniques. COIN is understood as a logical, effective, and democratically palatable method for confronting insurgency--a discrete set of practices that, through the actions of knowledgeable soldiers and under the guidance of an expert...Show more

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9780231170000

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Columbia University Press

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2015

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1

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The Political Impossibility of Modern Counterinsurgency

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