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The Soul of Armies : Counterinsurgency Doctrine and Military Culture in the US and UK /

For both the United States and United Kingdom counterinsurgency was a serious component of security policy during the Cold War and, along with counterterrorism, has been the greatest security challenge after September 11, 2001. In The Soul of Armies Austin Long compares and contrasts counterinsurgen...

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Autor principal: Long, Austin G. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Cornell University Press, 2016.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Military doctrine and the challenge of counterinsurgency
  • Culture, doctrine and military professionalization
  • "The habits and usages of war": U.S. army professionalization, 1865-1962
  • From the halls of Montezuma: Marine Corps professionalization, 1865-1960
  • A family of regiments: British Army professionalization,1856-1948
  • "A nasty, untidy mess": U.S. counterinsurgency in Vietnam, 1960-1971
  • A natural experiment in I Corps, 1966-1968
  • Out of Africa: British Army counterinsurgency in Kenya,1952-1956
  • Counterinsurgency in the land of two rivers: the Americans and British in Iraq, 2003-2008
  • Counterinsurgency in Afghanistan, 2003-2011.