The Resource Wrong turn : America's deadly embrace of counterinsurgency, Colonel Gian Gentile
Wrong turn : America's deadly embrace of counterinsurgency, Colonel Gian Gentile
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The item Wrong turn : America's deadly embrace of counterinsurgency, Colonel Gian Gentile represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library.
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- Summary
- "Colonel Gian Gentile's 2008 article "Misreading the Surge" in World Politics Review first exposed a growing rift among military intellectuals that has since been playing out in strategy sessions at the Pentagon, in classrooms at military academies, and on the pages of the New York Times. While the past years of U.S. strategy in Afghanistan have been dominated by the doctrine of counterinsurgency (COIN), Gentile and a small group of dissident officers and defense analysts have questioned the necessity and efficacy of COIN--essentially armed nation-building--in achieving the United States' limited core policy objective in Afghanistan: the destruction of Al Qaeda. Drawing both on the author's experiences as a combat battalion commander in the Iraq War and his research into the application of counterinsurgency in a variety of historical contexts, Wrong Turn is a brilliant summation of Gentile's views of the failures of COIN, as well as a searing reevaluation of the current state of affairs in Afghanistan. As the issue of America's withdrawal from Afghanistan inevitably rises to the top of the national agenda, Wrong Turn will be a major new touchstone for what went wrong and a vital new guide to the way forward. Note: the ideas in this book are the author's alone, not the Department of Defense's."--
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xviii, 189 pages
- Contents
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- The conceit of American counterinsurgency
- The construction of the counterinsurgency narrative
- Malaya : the foundation of the counterinsurgency narrative
- Vietnam : the first better war that wasn't
- Iraq : a better war, version 2
- Afghanistan : another better war that wasn't
- Isbn
- 9781595588746
- Label
- Wrong turn : America's deadly embrace of counterinsurgency
- Title
- Wrong turn
- Title remainder
- America's deadly embrace of counterinsurgency
- Statement of responsibility
- Colonel Gian Gentile
- Subject
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- Counterinsurgency -- Case studies
- Counterinsurgency -- Government policy -- United States
- Counterinsurgency -- Iraq -- History -- 21st century
- Counterinsurgency -- Afghanistan -- History -- 21st century
- Counterinsurgency -- Vietnam -- History -- 20th century
- HISTORY / Military / Strategy
- Counterinsurgency -- Malaya -- History -- 20th century
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "Colonel Gian Gentile's 2008 article "Misreading the Surge" in World Politics Review first exposed a growing rift among military intellectuals that has since been playing out in strategy sessions at the Pentagon, in classrooms at military academies, and on the pages of the New York Times. While the past years of U.S. strategy in Afghanistan have been dominated by the doctrine of counterinsurgency (COIN), Gentile and a small group of dissident officers and defense analysts have questioned the necessity and efficacy of COIN--essentially armed nation-building--in achieving the United States' limited core policy objective in Afghanistan: the destruction of Al Qaeda. Drawing both on the author's experiences as a combat battalion commander in the Iraq War and his research into the application of counterinsurgency in a variety of historical contexts, Wrong Turn is a brilliant summation of Gentile's views of the failures of COIN, as well as a searing reevaluation of the current state of affairs in Afghanistan. As the issue of America's withdrawal from Afghanistan inevitably rises to the top of the national agenda, Wrong Turn will be a major new touchstone for what went wrong and a vital new guide to the way forward. Note: the ideas in this book are the author's alone, not the Department of Defense's."--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Gentile, Gian P
- Dewey number
- 355.02/180973
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- U241
- LC item number
- .G46 2013
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Counterinsurgency
- Counterinsurgency
- Counterinsurgency
- Counterinsurgency
- Counterinsurgency
- Counterinsurgency
- HISTORY / Military / Strategy
- Label
- Wrong turn : America's deadly embrace of counterinsurgency, Colonel Gian Gentile
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Contents
- The conceit of American counterinsurgency -- The construction of the counterinsurgency narrative -- Malaya : the foundation of the counterinsurgency narrative -- Vietnam : the first better war that wasn't -- Iraq : a better war, version 2 -- Afghanistan : another better war that wasn't
- Control code
- 807025091
- Dimensions
- 22 cm.
- Extent
- xviii, 189 pages
- Isbn
- 9781595588746
- Isbn Type
- (hardback)
- Lccn
- 2012049114
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Label
- Wrong turn : America's deadly embrace of counterinsurgency, Colonel Gian Gentile
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Contents
- The conceit of American counterinsurgency -- The construction of the counterinsurgency narrative -- Malaya : the foundation of the counterinsurgency narrative -- Vietnam : the first better war that wasn't -- Iraq : a better war, version 2 -- Afghanistan : another better war that wasn't
- Control code
- 807025091
- Dimensions
- 22 cm.
- Extent
- xviii, 189 pages
- Isbn
- 9781595588746
- Isbn Type
- (hardback)
- Lccn
- 2012049114
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
Subject
- Counterinsurgency -- Case studies
- Counterinsurgency -- Government policy -- United States
- Counterinsurgency -- Iraq -- History -- 21st century
- Counterinsurgency -- Afghanistan -- History -- 21st century
- Counterinsurgency -- Vietnam -- History -- 20th century
- HISTORY / Military / Strategy
- Counterinsurgency -- Malaya -- History -- 20th century
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