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Simon and Schuster
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408

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Subjects
Counterinsurgency, Armed Forces, Generals, Officers, Military policy, Campaigns, Planning, Strategic culture, Iraq War, 2003-2011, Education, Afghan War, 2001-, Biography, History, Insurgency, Generals, biography, United states, military policy, United states, armed forces, officers, Afghan war, 2001-, Iraq war, 2003-2011, New York Times reviewed, Military, counterinsurgency
People
David Howell Petraeus, Stanley McChrystal, David Galula, David Kilcullen, John A. Nagl, Robert Gates, Ricardo """"""""Bud"""""""" Sanchez
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United States, Afghanistan, Iraq, Algeria, USA
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21st century, 2001-2012

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Table of Contents

What We Need Is an Officer with Three Heads. 1
Eating Soup With a Knife?. 11
Revolutions. 35
The Insurgent at War. 44
The lrregulars. 61
"Where is My Counterinsurgency Plan?". 79
The Basin Harbor Gang. 94
The Directive. 108
The Insurgent in the Engine Room of Change. 117
The Workshop at Tatooine. 126
Hearts & Minds. 153
Clear Hold and Build. 166
"We Are Pulling in Different Directions". 204
The Field Manual. 213
The Surge. 223
Awakenings. 244
The Insurgent in the Pentagon. 270
"It is Folly". 284
COIN vs CT. 294
"Storm Clouds". 319
"A New American Way of War". 349
Postscript. 367
Notes. 369
Interviews. 397
Acknowledgements. 399
Index. 401

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Hardcover
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OL25431560M
ISBN 13
9781451642636
amazon.co.uk_asin
1381151445
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15802422

Work Description

This book describes the attempt to reform the culture of the US Armed Forces in the face of the challenges of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan from a cold war machinery focussed on major battles against a massive enemy towards the flexible dominance over an elusive, ingrained and invisible one.

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