Air power in the new counterinsurgency era [[electronic resource] ] : the strategic importance of USAF advisory and assistance missions / / Alan J. Vick ... [et al.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Santa Monica, CA, : RAND Corp., 2006 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (205 p.) |
Disciplina | 358.4/1425 |
Altri autori (Persone) | VickAlan |
Soggetto topico |
Counterinsurgency - United States
Air power - United States Military assistance, American Military missions World politics - 21st century |
ISBN |
1-281-18096-3
9786611180966 0-8330-4254-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Preface; Contents; Figures; Tables; Summary; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Chapter One - Introduction; Background; The Dilemma of Intervention; Purpose and Organization of This Monograph; Chapter Two - The Evolving Insurgency Challenge; Introduction; Defining Insurgency; Categorizing Insurgencies; Sources of Insurgency; Insurgency and U.S. Security; Conclusion; Chapter Three - The Challenge of Counterinsurgency: Lessons from the Cold War and After; Introduction; Four Principles; Conclusion; Chapter Four - Grand Strategy and Counterinsurgency; Introduction
Assessing Insurgent Threats to U.S. National SecurityGrand Strategies for Small Wars; Options for Counterinsurgency Intervention; Investing in Counterinsurgency Capabilities; The Roles of Allies in Counterinsurgency; Chapter Five - A New Framework of Understanding and Responding to Insurgencies; The Application of Military Power to Counterinsurgency; Security Cooperation and Foreign Internal Defense; Some Caveats on Early Intervention; The Power and Limitations of Military Assistance:The El Salvador Experience; El Salvador: Lessons for Future CounterinsurgencyOperations Chapter Six - The USAF Role in Countering InsurgenciesThe Role of Air Power in Counterinsurgency Operations; How Should We Think About the Role of Air Power inCounterinsurgency?; Current USAF Operational Aviation Advising Activities; Estimating Demand for Operational Aviation Advising; Expanding and Deepening USAF Capabilities to CounterInsurgencies; Chapter Seven - Conclusions; Final Thoughts; Appendix A - States Afflicted by Insurgency; Appendix B - Estimating Manpower Requirements for Advisory Assistance; Bibliography |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910219987603321 |
Santa Monica, CA, : RAND Corp., 2006 | ||
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Analytic support to intelligence in counterinsurgencies [[electronic resource] /] / Walter L. Perry, John Gordon IV |
Autore | Perry Walt L |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Santa Monica, CA, : RAND Corp., 2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (85 p.) |
Disciplina | 355.3/4320973 |
Altri autori (Persone) | GordonJohn <1956-> |
Soggetto topico |
Counterinsurgency - United States
Insurgency Military intelligence - United States |
ISBN |
1-281-73657-0
9786611736576 0-8330-4526-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Preface; Contents; Figures; Tables; Summary; Analysis; Conclusion; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; CHAPTER ONE Introduction; The Focus on Conventional Operations; The Hard Lessons of Iraq and Afghanistan; About This Monograph; CHAPTER TWO The Nature of Modern Insurgency; Proto-Insurgency; Small-Scale Insurgency; Large-Scale Insurgency; CHAPTER THREE The Dominance of Intelligence; Intelligence Operations in Support of Conventional Combat; Intelligence in Support of Counterinsurgencies; CHAPTER FOUR The Analytic Questions; The Proto-Insurgency; Small-Scale Insurgency
Large-Scale Insurgency CHAPTER FIVE Intelligence Analysis; Data: Precision Versus Accuracy; Discerning Patterns; Predictive Tools; Analyzing Insurgent Networks: The "Counterinsurgency Common Operational Picture" (COINCOP); Enemy-Friendly Interaction Analyses; CHAPTER SIX Conclusions; Modern Insurgency; The Role of Analysis; Bibliography |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910219985903321 |
Perry Walt L | ||
Santa Monica, CA, : RAND Corp., 2008 | ||
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Anthropology and global counterinsurgency [[electronic resource] /] / edited by John D. Kelly ...[et al.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, c2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (406 p.) |
Disciplina | 306.2/70973 |
Altri autori (Persone) | KellyJohn D |
Soggetto topico |
Political anthropology - United States
War and society - United States Counterinsurgency - United States |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
9786612538087
1-282-53808-X 0-226-42995-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- CONTENTS -- Introduction: Culture, Counterinsurgency, Conscience -- 1. Bluing Green in the Maldives: Countering Citizen Insurgency by "Civil"-izing National Security -- 2. Phantom Power: Notes on Provisionality in Haiti -- 3. The Categorization of People as Targets of Violence: A Perspective on the Colombian Armed Conflict -- 4. Seeing Red: Mao Fetishism, Pax Americana, and the Moral Economy of War -- 5. Paranoid Styles of Nationalism after the Cold War: Notes from an Invasion of the Amazon -- 6. Hungry Wolves, Inclement Storms: Commodified Fantasies of American Imperial Power in Contemporary Turkey -- 7. Rwandan Rebels and U.S. Federal Prosecutors: American Power, Violence, and the Pursuit of Justice in the Age of the War on Terror -- 8. Weapons, Passports, and News: Palestinian Perceptions of U.S. Power as a Mediator of War -- 9. The Cold War Present: The Logic of Defense Time -- 10. The Uses of Anthropology in the Insurgent Age -- 11. Small Wars and Counterinsurgency -- 12. Repetition Compulsion? Counterinsurgency Bravado in Iraq and Vietnam -- 13. Counterinsurgency, The Spook, and Blowback -- 14. An Anthropologist among the Soldiers: Notes from the Field -- 15. Indirect Rule and Embedded Anthropology: Practical, Theoretical, and Ethical Concerns -- 16. Soft Power, Hard Power, and the Anthropological "Leveraging" of Cultural "Assets": Distilling the Politics and Ethics of Anthropological Counterinsurgency -- 17. Yes, Both, Absolutely: A Personal and Professional Commentary on Anthropological Engagement with Military and Intelligence Organizations -- 18. The Cultural Turn in the War on Terror -- 19. Cultural Sensitivity in a Military Occupation: The U.S. Military in Iraq -- 20. The "Bad" Kill: A Short Case Study in American Counterinsurgency -- 21. The Destruction of Conscience and the Winter Soldier -- 22. No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy: History, Memory, and the Conscience of a Marine -- Reference List -- Contributors -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910456309603321 |
Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, c2010 | ||
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Anthropology and global counterinsurgency [[electronic resource] /] / edited by John D. Kelly ...[et al.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, c2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (406 p.) |
Disciplina | 306.2/70973 |
Altri autori (Persone) | KellyJohn D |
Soggetto topico |
Political anthropology - United States
War and society - United States Counterinsurgency - United States |
Soggetto non controllato | anthropology, counterinsurgency, governance, government, politics, foreign relations, war, military, sociology, state violence, pax americana, interventionism, conflict, national security, maldives, terrorism, nationalism, conscience, marine, soldiers, occupation, iraq, cultural sensitivity, indirect rule, vietnam, spies, espionage, palestine, rwanda, human rights, turkey, empire, nonfiction, history, political science |
ISBN |
9786612538087
1-282-53808-X 0-226-42995-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- CONTENTS -- Introduction: Culture, Counterinsurgency, Conscience -- 1. Bluing Green in the Maldives: Countering Citizen Insurgency by "Civil"-izing National Security -- 2. Phantom Power: Notes on Provisionality in Haiti -- 3. The Categorization of People as Targets of Violence: A Perspective on the Colombian Armed Conflict -- 4. Seeing Red: Mao Fetishism, Pax Americana, and the Moral Economy of War -- 5. Paranoid Styles of Nationalism after the Cold War: Notes from an Invasion of the Amazon -- 6. Hungry Wolves, Inclement Storms: Commodified Fantasies of American Imperial Power in Contemporary Turkey -- 7. Rwandan Rebels and U.S. Federal Prosecutors: American Power, Violence, and the Pursuit of Justice in the Age of the War on Terror -- 8. Weapons, Passports, and News: Palestinian Perceptions of U.S. Power as a Mediator of War -- 9. The Cold War Present: The Logic of Defense Time -- 10. The Uses of Anthropology in the Insurgent Age -- 11. Small Wars and Counterinsurgency -- 12. Repetition Compulsion? Counterinsurgency Bravado in Iraq and Vietnam -- 13. Counterinsurgency, The Spook, and Blowback -- 14. An Anthropologist among the Soldiers: Notes from the Field -- 15. Indirect Rule and Embedded Anthropology: Practical, Theoretical, and Ethical Concerns -- 16. Soft Power, Hard Power, and the Anthropological "Leveraging" of Cultural "Assets": Distilling the Politics and Ethics of Anthropological Counterinsurgency -- 17. Yes, Both, Absolutely: A Personal and Professional Commentary on Anthropological Engagement with Military and Intelligence Organizations -- 18. The Cultural Turn in the War on Terror -- 19. Cultural Sensitivity in a Military Occupation: The U.S. Military in Iraq -- 20. The "Bad" Kill: A Short Case Study in American Counterinsurgency -- 21. The Destruction of Conscience and the Winter Soldier -- 22. No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy: History, Memory, and the Conscience of a Marine -- Reference List -- Contributors -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910781158703321 |
Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, c2010 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Anthropology and global counterinsurgency / / edited by John D. Kelly ...[et al.] |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, c2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (406 p.) |
Disciplina | 306.2/70973 |
Altri autori (Persone) | KellyJohn D |
Soggetto topico |
Political anthropology - United States
War and society - United States Counterinsurgency - United States |
Soggetto non controllato | anthropology, counterinsurgency, governance, government, politics, foreign relations, war, military, sociology, state violence, pax americana, interventionism, conflict, national security, maldives, terrorism, nationalism, conscience, marine, soldiers, occupation, iraq, cultural sensitivity, indirect rule, vietnam, spies, espionage, palestine, rwanda, human rights, turkey, empire, nonfiction, history, political science |
ISBN |
9786612538087
1-282-53808-X 0-226-42995-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- CONTENTS -- Introduction: Culture, Counterinsurgency, Conscience -- 1. Bluing Green in the Maldives: Countering Citizen Insurgency by "Civil"-izing National Security -- 2. Phantom Power: Notes on Provisionality in Haiti -- 3. The Categorization of People as Targets of Violence: A Perspective on the Colombian Armed Conflict -- 4. Seeing Red: Mao Fetishism, Pax Americana, and the Moral Economy of War -- 5. Paranoid Styles of Nationalism after the Cold War: Notes from an Invasion of the Amazon -- 6. Hungry Wolves, Inclement Storms: Commodified Fantasies of American Imperial Power in Contemporary Turkey -- 7. Rwandan Rebels and U.S. Federal Prosecutors: American Power, Violence, and the Pursuit of Justice in the Age of the War on Terror -- 8. Weapons, Passports, and News: Palestinian Perceptions of U.S. Power as a Mediator of War -- 9. The Cold War Present: The Logic of Defense Time -- 10. The Uses of Anthropology in the Insurgent Age -- 11. Small Wars and Counterinsurgency -- 12. Repetition Compulsion? Counterinsurgency Bravado in Iraq and Vietnam -- 13. Counterinsurgency, The Spook, and Blowback -- 14. An Anthropologist among the Soldiers: Notes from the Field -- 15. Indirect Rule and Embedded Anthropology: Practical, Theoretical, and Ethical Concerns -- 16. Soft Power, Hard Power, and the Anthropological "Leveraging" of Cultural "Assets": Distilling the Politics and Ethics of Anthropological Counterinsurgency -- 17. Yes, Both, Absolutely: A Personal and Professional Commentary on Anthropological Engagement with Military and Intelligence Organizations -- 18. The Cultural Turn in the War on Terror -- 19. Cultural Sensitivity in a Military Occupation: The U.S. Military in Iraq -- 20. The "Bad" Kill: A Short Case Study in American Counterinsurgency -- 21. The Destruction of Conscience and the Winter Soldier -- 22. No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy: History, Memory, and the Conscience of a Marine -- Reference List -- Contributors -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910815040303321 |
Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, c2010 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
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Counterinsurgency for U.S. government policy makers [[electronic resource] ] : a work in progress |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | [Washington, D.C.] : , : U. S. Dept. of State, Bureau of political-Military Affairs, , [2007] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (40 pages) : illustrations |
Collana | Department of State publication |
Soggetto topico |
Counterinsurgency - United States
Internal security - United States Insurgency |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Altri titoli varianti | Counterinsurgency for U.S. government policy makers |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910697614303321 |
[Washington, D.C.] : , : U. S. Dept. of State, Bureau of political-Military Affairs, , [2007] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Doctrine of eternal recurrence [[electronic resource] ] : the U.S. military and counterinsurgency doctrine, 1960-1970 and 2003-2006 / / Austin Long |
Autore | Long Austin G |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Santa Monica, CA, : Rand National Defense Research Institute, 2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (47 p.) |
Disciplina | 355.02/18097309046 |
Collana |
Rand counterinsurgency study. Paper
Occasional paper |
Soggetto topico |
Counterinsurgency - United States
Military doctrine - United States |
ISBN |
1-282-03316-6
9786612033162 0-8330-4535-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Preface; Contents; Summary; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Doctrine of Eternal Recurrence-The U.S. Military and Counterinsurgency Doctrine; Doctrine and Counterinsurgency: Defining the Terms; Small Wars Before COIN: U.S. Experiences Prior to 1960; The Kennedy Years: The Birth of COIN Doctrine; Limits of Doctrine: Vietnam, 1961 to 1963; Attempts to Put Doctrine into Practice: The PROVN Study, 1965 to 1966; COIN as Practiced: Vietnam, 1965 to 1968; Doctrine in the Late 1960s; COIN as Practiced: Vietnam, 1969 to 1972; Interlude: COIN and the Military, 1973 to 2003
COIN Doctrine, 2003 to 2005COIN Operations, 2003 to 2005; Doctrine and Operations in 2006; Getting It Right? COIN in Iraq, 2007; Komer's Lament: COIN Doctrine vs. COIN Practice; Conclusion; References |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910220158803321 |
Long Austin G | ||
Santa Monica, CA, : Rand National Defense Research Institute, 2008 | ||
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The guerrillas in the boardroom : what COIN theory teaches leaders about organizational change, and how corporate change models could transform military doctrine / / by Douglas A. Pryer |
Autore | Pryer Douglas A. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | [West Point, N.Y.] : , : Modern War Institute, , 2016 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (23 pages) : color illustration |
Soggetto topico |
Organizational change
Military doctrine - United States Counterinsurgency - United States Tactics Military doctrine |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Altri titoli varianti | Guerrillas in the boardroom |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910711946103321 |
Pryer Douglas A. | ||
[West Point, N.Y.] : , : Modern War Institute, , 2016 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
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The innate insurgent advantage : can training and planning bridge the gap? / / Gary W. Boyd, Department of the Air Force civilian |
Autore | Boyd Gary W. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama : , : Air University Press, Air Force Research Institute, , 2016 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (ix, 33 pages) : illustrations |
Collana | Wright flyer paper |
Soggetto topico |
Iraq War, 2003-2011
Afghan War, 2001-2021 Counterinsurgency - United States Military planning - United States Military education - United States Strategy Armed Forces - Stability operations Counterinsurgency Military education Military planning Military policy |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Altri titoli varianti | Can training and planning bridge the gap? |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910708498003321 |
Boyd Gary W. | ||
Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama : , : Air University Press, Air Force Research Institute, , 2016 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Lifting the fog of peace [[electronic resource] ] : how Americans learned to fight modern war / / Janine Davidson |
Autore | Davidson Janine |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Ann Arbor, : University of Michigan Press, c2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (257 p.) |
Disciplina | 355/.033573 |
Soggetto topico |
Military doctrine - United States
Counterinsurgency - United States Nation-building - United States |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-282-88295-3
9786612882951 0-472-02298-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | On the front lines with America's nation builders -- Military learning and competing theories of change -- Two centuries of small wars and nation building -- Vietnam to Iraq : debating the "new world order" -- Learning to learn : the training revolution in the post-Vietnam military -- Doctrine and education for the new force -- Learning to surge in Iraq -- Learning theory and military change in the 21st century. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910458829303321 |
Davidson Janine | ||
Ann Arbor, : University of Michigan Press, c2010 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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