| Autore |
Molloy Ivan
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| Pubbl/distr/stampa |
London ; ; Sterling, Va., : Pluto Press, 2001
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| Descrizione fisica |
1 online resource (320 p.)
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| Disciplina |
327.1/17/0973
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| Soggetto topico |
Low-intensity conflicts (Military science) - United States
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| ISBN |
1-84964-108-0
0-585-43371-2
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| Formato |
Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione |
eng
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| Nota di contenuto |
Machine generated contents note: Introduction 1 -- A Fresh Perspective 2 -- The Argument in a Nutshell 2 -- LIC in Context 7 -- A New Perspective 8 -- The Approach 10 -- The Scope 12 -- Terminology -- 13 -- 1. What is LIC? 15 -- The Strategy's Broad Thrust 15 -- A Definition of Low Intensity Conflict 16 -- The LIC Conflict Profile 19 -- The Need for Context? 31 -- 2. An Inevitable Strategy: LIC's Emergence in Context 32 -- Continuity and Discontinuity 32 -- Old and New 48 -- The Status of LIC 51 -- The Development of the Full Profile 53 -- An Expected Foreign Policy Initiative? 54 -- 3. From Approach to Strategy 55 -- Self-Analysis and Debate: The Influence of Vietnam 55 -- The Debate Within the Reagan Administration and the Military 62 -- Evidence of LIC Gaining Coherence 65 -- The Strategy Emerges 70 -- 4. The Reagan Doctrine: Selling LIC To America 72 -- What was the Reagan Doctrine? 73 -- The Reagan Doctrine as an Expression of Low Intensity Conflict 83 -- 5. Central America: The Strategy's Proving Ground? 86 -- Central America as the Focus of US Foreign Policy 86 -- The Determinants of LIC 88 -- The Determinants/Preconditions for LIC 99 -- The Emergence of Low Intensity Conflict 102 -- 6. Nicaragua and Revolutionary LIC 104 -- The Political/Psychological Dimension 104 -- The Economic Dimension 114 -- The Military Dimension 116 -- The Civic Action Dimension 124 -- Nicaragua and the Strategy of LIC 125 -- 7. LIC in the Philippines? 127 -- The Determinants of the Response 128 -- The Need for a New Approach 132 -- The Reagan Administration Responds 133 -- The Third Way - The LIC Response 134 -- LIC Characteristics 134 -- The Collective Response 142 -- 8. The Counter-Revolutionary Profile 143 -- The Political/Psychological Dimension 143 -- The Economic Dimension 155 -- The Military Dimension 156 -- The Civic Action Dimension - Completing the Picture 161 -- A Characteristic LIC Response? 163 -- 9. LIC Continued? 167 -- LIC Emergent 168 -- The Success of Reagan's LIC? 173 -- An Ongoing Strategy 174.
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| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910779916103321 |