03869nam 2200673 450 991046361240332120210511015646.010.7312/smit17000(CKB)2670000000612264(EBL)1974562(SSID)ssj0001459686(PQKBManifestationID)11917374(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001459686(PQKBWorkID)11464644(PQKB)11273671(StDuBDS)EDZ0001252325(MiAaPQ)EBC1974562(DE-B1597)458512(OCoLC)979953877(DE-B1597)9780231539128(PPN)18752680X(Au-PeEL)EBL1974562(CaPaEBR)ebr11050032(CaONFJC)MIL776836(OCoLC)908091712(EXLCZ)99267000000061226420140828h20152015 uy| 0engurnnu---|u||utxtccrThe political impossibility of modern counterinsurgency strategic problems, puzzles, and paradoxes /M. L. R. Smith and David Martin JonesNew York :ColumbiaUniversity Press,[2015]©20151 online resource (289 p.)Columbia studies in terrorism and irregular warfareDescription based upon print version of record.0-231-53912-6 0-231-17000-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --Contents --Acknowledgments --Introduction --1. What Is Counterinsurgency Meant to Counter? The Puzzle of Insurgency --2. Counterinsurgency and Strategy: Problems and Paradoxes --3. Counterinsurgency and the Ideology of Modernization --4. The Paradoxes of Counterinsurgency and Globalization --5. The Illusion of Tradition: Myths and Paradoxes of British Counterinsurgency --6. The Puzzle of Counterinsurgency and Escalation --Conclusion --Notes --Bibliography --IndexThe counterinsurgency (COIN) paradigm dominates military and political conduct in contemporary Western strategic thought. It assumes future wars will unfold as "low intensity" conflicts within rather than between states, requiring specialized military training and techniques. COIN is understood as a logical, effective, and democratically palatable method for confronting insurgency-a discrete set of practices that, through the actions of knowledgeable soldiers and under the guidance of an expert elite, creates lasting results. Through an extensive investigation into COIN's theories, methods, and outcomes, this book undermines enduring claims about COIN's success while revealing its hidden meanings and effects. Interrogating the relationship between counterinsurgency and war, the authors question the supposed uniqueness of COIN's attributes and try to resolve the puzzle of its intellectual identity. Is COIN a strategy, a doctrine, a theory, a military practice, or something else? Their analysis ultimately exposes a critical paradox within COIN: while it ignores the vital political dimensions of war, it is nevertheless the product of a misplaced ideological faith in modernization.Columbia studies in terrorism and irregular warfare.CounterinsurgencyHistory21st centuryTerrorismHistory21st centuryElectronic books.CounterinsurgencyHistoryTerrorismHistory355.02/18Smith M. L. R(Michael Lawrence Rowan),1963-12812Jones David Martin1950-MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910463612403321The political impossibility of modern counterinsurgency2475492UNINA