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Deadly Paradigms : The Failure of U.S. Counterinsurgency Policy / D. Michael Shafer.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Princeton Legacy Library ; 1032Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2014]Copyright date: ©1988Edition: Course BookDescription: 1 online resource (348 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780691609249
  • 9781400860586
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 327.73
LOC classification:
  • E744 -- S475 1988eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE AND READER'S GUIDE -- ABBREVIATIONS -- NOTATION FOR FOOTNOTES AND BIBLIOGRAPHY -- PART I -- 1. Introduction: Dogs That Didn't Bark -- 2. Possible Explanations: Sources of Policy Content and Continuity -- PART II -- 3. Flight, Fall, and Persistance: Political Development Theory -- 4. Security and Development -- 5. Mao Minus Marx: American Counterinsurgency Doctrine -- PART III -- 6. Not So Exceptionally American -- 7. Greece: The Trojan Horse -- 8. The Philippines: Magsaysay's Miracle -- 9. Vietnam: Reaping the Whirlwind -- PART IV -- 10. Conclusion: Facing the Future -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX
Summary: Michael Shafer argues that American policymakers have fundamentally misperceived the political context of revolutionary wars directed against American clients and that because American attempts at counterinsurgency were based on faulty premises, these efforts have failed in virtually every instance.Originally published in 1988.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE AND READER'S GUIDE -- ABBREVIATIONS -- NOTATION FOR FOOTNOTES AND BIBLIOGRAPHY -- PART I -- 1. Introduction: Dogs That Didn't Bark -- 2. Possible Explanations: Sources of Policy Content and Continuity -- PART II -- 3. Flight, Fall, and Persistance: Political Development Theory -- 4. Security and Development -- 5. Mao Minus Marx: American Counterinsurgency Doctrine -- PART III -- 6. Not So Exceptionally American -- 7. Greece: The Trojan Horse -- 8. The Philippines: Magsaysay's Miracle -- 9. Vietnam: Reaping the Whirlwind -- PART IV -- 10. Conclusion: Facing the Future -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX

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Michael Shafer argues that American policymakers have fundamentally misperceived the political context of revolutionary wars directed against American clients and that because American attempts at counterinsurgency were based on faulty premises, these efforts have failed in virtually every instance.Originally published in 1988.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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