LEADER 03448nam 2200637Ia 450 001 9910792021903321 005 20230803023727.0 010 $a0-8047-8642-9 024 7 $a10.1515/9780804786423 035 $a(CKB)2560000000102010 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000886294 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11466679 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000886294 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10817560 035 $a(PQKB)10542691 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000155778 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1207685 035 $a(DE-B1597)564255 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780804786423 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1207685 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10716177 035 $a(OCoLC)850080159 035 $a(OCoLC)1178769323 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000102010 100 $a20121026d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aLearning to forget$b[electronic resource] $eUS Army counterinsurgency doctrine and practice from Vietnam to Iraq /$fDavid Fitzgerald 210 $aStanford, CA $cStanford University Press$d2013 215 $a1 online resource (x, 285 pages) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8047-9337-9 311 $a0-8047-8581-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tCONTENTS --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction --$t1 The Army?s Counterinsurgency War in Vietnam --$t2 ?Out of the Rice Paddies? --$t3 Low-Intensity Conflict in the Reagan Years --$t4 Peacekeeping and Operations Other Than War in the 1990's --$t5 Mr. Rumsfeld?s War --$t6 Counterinsurgency and ?Vietnam? in Iraq, 2003?2006 --$t7 The Return to Counterinsurgency: FM 3-24 and the ?Surge? --$t8 A Never-Ending War? --$tConclusion --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $aLearning to Forget analyzes the evolution of US counterinsurgency (COIN) doctrine over the last five decades. Beginning with an extensive section on the lessons of Vietnam, it traces the decline of COIN in the 1970's, then the rebirth of low intensity conflict through the Reagan years, in the conflict in Bosnia, and finally in the campaigns of Iraq and Afghanistan. Ultimately it closes the loop by explaining how, by confronting the lessons of Vietnam, the US Army found a way out of those most recent wars. In the process it provides an illustration of how military leaders make use of history and demonstrates the difficulties of drawing lessons from the past that can usefully be applied to contemporary circumstances. The book outlines how the construction of lessons is tied to the construction of historical memory and demonstrates how histories are constructed to serve the needs of the present. In so doing, it creates a new theory of doctrinal development. 606 $aCounterinsurgency$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aVietnam War, 1961-1975$zUnited States 606 $aVietnam War, 1961-1975$xInfluence 606 $aIraq War, 2003-2011 615 0$aCounterinsurgency$xHistory. 615 0$aVietnam War, 1961-1975 615 0$aVietnam War, 1961-1975$xInfluence. 615 0$aIraq War, 2003-2011. 676 $a355.02/18097309045 700 $aFitzgerald$b David$f1984-$01533811 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910792021903321 996 $aLearning to forget$93780940 997 $aUNINA