Soviet Counterinsurgency

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910163174603321
• Autore: Johnson David Ray
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Waipu : , : Pickle Partners Publishing, , 2014; ©2014
• ISBN: 9781782897736; 1782897739
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (85 p.)
• Disciplina: 355.009
• Soggetti: Counterinsurgency; Soviet . .; Soviet Union
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: Title page -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- ABSTRACT -- I. INTRODUCTION -- A. METHODOLOGY AND SOURCES -- B. DEFINITIONS -- C. SOVIET COUNTERINSURGENCY AND THE FUTURE -- II. SOVIET THOUGHT ON COUNTERINSURGENCY -- A. SOVIET THOUGHT ON WAR AND COUNTERINSURGENCY -- B. SOVIET MILITARY DOCTRINE AND COUNTERINSURGENCY -- C. THE ANATOMY OF COMMUNIST TAKEOVERS AND SOVIET-COUNTERINSURGENCY -- III. SOVIET COUNTERINSURGENCY IN CENTRAL ASIA: THE RED ARMY VERSUS THE BASMACHI -- A. THE TASHKENT SOVIET AND THE BASMACHI 1917-1920 -- 1. Political Measures of Turksovnarkom’s Counterinsurgency Campaign -- 2. Military Measures of Turkesovnarkom’s Counterinsurgency Campaign -- B. TURKKOMISSIA AND THE BASMACHI 1920-1924 -- 1. Turkkomissia’s Political Measures -- 2. The Military Aspect of Turkkomissia’s Anti-Basmachi Campaign -- C. THE MEANING OF SOVIET VICTORY IN CENTRAL ASIA -- IV. SOVIET COUNTERINSURGENCY IN LITHUANIA AND THE UKRAINE -- A. SOVIET POLITICAL METHODS IN LITHUANIA AND THE UKRAINE -- B. THE MILITARY CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE UPA AND THE LFA -- 1. The counterinsurgent campaign in the Ukraine -- 2. The Counterinsurgent Campaign in Lithuania -- C. LESSONS OF THE ; CAMPAIGNS AGAINST THE LFA AND THE UPA -- V. SOVIET COUNTERINSURGENCY IN AFGHANISTAN -- A. SOCIAL-POLITICAL ASPECTS OF THE SOVIET COUNTER-INSURGENT CAMPAIGN: SOVIETIZATION -- B. SOVIET MILITARY STRATEGY IN AFGHANISTAN -- 1. The Invasion and Its Aftermath: Miscalculation and Failure -- 2. February 1980 to September 1986: The Period of Soviet Domination
• Sommario/riassunto: The aim of this paper is to determine the presence or absence of a Soviet doctrine of counterinsurgency and to identify the historical patterns of Soviet counterinsurgency. The development of these central themes should contribute to the secondary goals of the paper; first, to establish a fuller basis of comparison than is currently used in examination of Soviet and Soviet-advised counterinsurgent campaigns, and second, to add some historical depth to the developing body of work on Soviet counterinsurgency. This should allow for some useful generalizations about the Soviet approach to counterinsurgent warfare to be derived.Counterinsurgency became a preoccupation of the U.S. military during the late fifties and early sixties. The U.S. involvement in Vietnam sustained interest in counterinsurgency and new challenges to U.S. interests in Latin America, Asia, and Africa have renewed attention to issues of counterinsurgency in the eighties. Although the insurgents (primarily the Central Asian Basmachi), and comparative surveys of the counterinsurgency campaigns of the Soviets in Afghanistan and various Soviet allies fighting insurgents since 1975. For the purpose of establishing the patterns of Soviet counterinsurgency the limited number of cases in the first two approaches is too narrow. Although the third approach examines more cases, it mixes dissimilar cases and blurs distinctions between Soviet methods of counterinsurgency and the methods of Soviet advised militaries fighting insurgencies.