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portada wrong turn: america's deadly embrace of counterinsurgency
Type
Physical Book
Author
Publisher
Year
2013
Language
English
Pages
208
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
21.8x14.6x2 cm
Weight
0.35 kg.
ISBN
1595588744
ISBN13
9781595588746
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wrong turn: america's deadly embrace of counterinsurgency

Colonel Gian Gentile (Author) · New Press · Hardcover

wrong turn: america's deadly embrace of counterinsurgency - Gentile, Colonel Gian

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Synopsis "wrong turn: america's deadly embrace of counterinsurgency"

A searing indictment of US strategy in Afghanistan from a distinguished military leader and West Point military historian--"A remarkable book" (National Review). In 2008, Col. Gian Gentile exposed a growing rift among military intellectuals with an article titled "Misreading the Surge Threatens U.S. Army's Conventional Capabilities," that appeared in World Politics Review. While the years of US strategy in Afghanistan had been dominated by the doctrine of counterinsurgency (COIN), Gentile and a small group of dissident officers and defense analysts began to question 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 trenchant reevaluation of US operations in Afghanistan. "Gentile is convinced that Obama's 'surge' in Afghanistan can't work. . . . And, if Afghanistan doesn't turn around soon, the Democrats . . . who have come to embrace the Petraeus-Nagl view of modern warfare . . . may find themselves wondering whether it's time to go back to the drawing board." --The New Republic

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