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The Political Impossibility of Modern Counterinsurgency : Strategic Problems, Puzzles, and Paradoxes / David Jones, M.L.R. Smith.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Columbia Studies in Terrorism and Irregular WarfarePublisher: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (272 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780231170000
  • 9780231539128
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 355.02/18 23
LOC classification:
  • U241 .S64 2015
  • U241 .S64 2015
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. What Is Counterinsurgency Meant to Counter? The Puzzle of Insurgency -- 2. Counterinsurgency and Strategy: Problems and Paradoxes -- 3. Counterinsurgency and the Ideology of Modernization -- 4. The Paradoxes of Counterinsurgency and Globalization -- 5. The Illusion of Tradition: Myths and Paradoxes of British Counterinsurgency -- 6. The Puzzle of Counterinsurgency and Escalation -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: 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 elite, creates lasting results.Through an extensive investigation into COIN's theories, methods, and outcomes, this book undermines enduring claims about COIN's success while revealing its hidden meanings and effects. Interrogating the relationship between counterinsurgency and war, the authors question the supposed uniqueness of COIN's attributes and try to resolve the puzzle of its intellectual identity. Is COIN a strategy, a doctrine, a theory, a military practice, or something else? Their analysis ultimately exposes a critical paradox within COIN: while it ignores the vital political dimensions of war, it is nevertheless the product of a misplaced ideological faith in modernization.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. What Is Counterinsurgency Meant to Counter? The Puzzle of Insurgency -- 2. Counterinsurgency and Strategy: Problems and Paradoxes -- 3. Counterinsurgency and the Ideology of Modernization -- 4. The Paradoxes of Counterinsurgency and Globalization -- 5. The Illusion of Tradition: Myths and Paradoxes of British Counterinsurgency -- 6. The Puzzle of Counterinsurgency and Escalation -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

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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 elite, creates lasting results.Through an extensive investigation into COIN's theories, methods, and outcomes, this book undermines enduring claims about COIN's success while revealing its hidden meanings and effects. Interrogating the relationship between counterinsurgency and war, the authors question the supposed uniqueness of COIN's attributes and try to resolve the puzzle of its intellectual identity. Is COIN a strategy, a doctrine, a theory, a military practice, or something else? Their analysis ultimately exposes a critical paradox within COIN: while it ignores the vital political dimensions of war, it is nevertheless the product of a misplaced ideological faith in modernization.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)