Dimensions of Counter-insurgency (eBook, ePUB)

Applying Experience to Practice
Redaktion: Benbow, Tim; Thornton, Rod

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The once-neglected study of counter-insurgency operations has recently emerged as an area of central concern for Western governments and their military organizations. While counter-insurgency represents a hugely challenging form of contemporary warfare, there exists a considerable body of experience that offers assistance in the form of examples of

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Dezember 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136790027
• Artikelnr.: 47896109

Autorenporträt

Tim Benbow and Rod Thornton are both lecturers in the Defence Studies Department of King's College, London and at the Joint Services Command and Staff College. Tim Benbow is co-editor of Maritime Power in the 1990-91 Gulf War and the Conflict in the Former Yugoslavia, and author of The Magic Bullet? Understanding the Revolution in Military Affairs . He is a research associate, and Honorary Fellow, of the School of Historical , Political and Social Studies at the University of Exeter. Rod Thornton is a regular guest lecturer on Terrorism at the NATO Defence School in Rome, and on Terrorism/Asymmetric Warfare at Southampton and Oxford Universities. He is the author of Asymmetric Warfare: Threat and Response in the 21st Century.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction Counter-Insurgency in the Middle East 2. Countering Arab
Insurgencies: The British Experience 3. Orde Wingate and the Special Night
Squads: A Feasible Policy for Counter-Terrorism? 4. The Strategic
Information Campaign: Lessons from the British Experience in Palestine
1945-1948 Maritime and Air Power 5. The Blue, Green, and Brown: Insurgency
and Counter-Insurgency on the Water 6. Maritime Forces and
Counter-Insurgency 7. Countering Insurgency from the Air: The Postwar
Lessons 8. Air Power in Counter Insurgency: A Sophisticated Language or
Blunt Expression? Military Reform 9. Rethinking US Army Counter-Insurgency
Doctrine 10. Of Romans and Dragons: Preparing the US Marine Corps for
Future Warfare The Multilateral Response 11. NATO and Counter-Insurgency:
Strategic Liability or Tactical Test 12. The European Union and
Counter-Insurgency: Capability, Credibility and Political Will 13. Staying
the Course in 'Fourth-Generation Warfare': Persuasion, Perseverance in the
Era of the Asymmetric Bargaining War 14. Conclusion: The way Forward