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9780833041104 | Rand Corp, July 30, 2002, cover price $9.95
Product Description: By comparing modern counterinsurgency doctrine and operations to those of 1960s, this paper tests and ultimately disproves the assumption that doctrine as written and operations as conducted are tightly linked. Ingrained organizational concepts and beliefs have a much greater influence on operations than written doctrine, and altering these beliefs will require the U...read more
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9780833044709 | Rand Corp, August 30, 2008, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: By comparing modern counterinsurgency doctrine and operations to those of 1960s, this paper tests and ultimately disproves the assumption that doctrine as written and operations as conducted are tightly linked.
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9780833045355 | Rand Corp, June 3, 2004, cover price $9.95
Product Description: The challenges posed by insurgency and instability have proved difficult to surmount. This difficulty may embolden future opponents to embrace insurgency in combating the United States. Both the current and future conduct of the war on terror demand that the United States improve its ability to conduct counterinsurgency (COIN) operations...read more
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9780833039262 | Rand Corp, September 1, 2006, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: The challenges posed by insurgency and instability have proved difficult to surmount.
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9780833046338 | Rand Corp, October 1, 2008, cover price $9.95
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9780833041814 | Rand Corp, October 30, 2008, cover price $25.00
Product Description: Modern-day advocates of the Phoenix Program argue that it was devastatingly effective against the Viet Cong infrastructure during the Vietnam War, but detractors condemn it as a merciless assassination campaign. The authors provide a fresh assessment of the program and identify aspects that are relevant for contemporary counterinsurgency...read more
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9780833047458 | Rand Corp, July 16, 2009, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Modern-day advocates of the Phoenix Program argue that it was devastatingly effective against the Viet Cong infrastructure during the Vietnam War, but detractors condemn it as a merciless assassination campaign.
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9780833047519 | Rand Corp, October 30, 2009, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: Multinational corporations can be significant actors in zones of violent conflict.
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9780833049018 | Rand Corp, August 18, 2009, cover price $9.95
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9780833076595 | Rand Corp, September 16, 2012, cover price $25.95
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9781475742510 | Reprint edition (Springer Verlag, January 14, 2013), cover price $99.00
For both the United States and United Kingdom counterinsurgency was a serious component of security policy during the Cold War and, along with counterterrorism, has been the greatest security challenge after September 11, 2001. In The Soul of Armies Austin Long compares and contrasts counterinsurgency operations during the Cold War and in recent years by three organizations: the US Army, the US Marine Corps, and the British Army.Long argues that the formative experiences of these three organizations as they professionalized in the nineteenth century has produced distinctive organizational cultures that shape operations. Combining archival research on counterinsurgency campaigns in Vietnam and Kenya with the author's personal experience as a civilian advisor to the military in Iraq and Afghanistan, The Soul of Armies demonstrates that the US Army has persistently conducted counterinsurgency operations in a very different way from either the US Marine Corps or the British Army. These differences in conduct have serious consequences, affecting the likelihood of success, the potential for civilian casualties and collateral damage, and the ability to effectively support host nation governments. Long concludes counterinsurgency operations are at best only a partial explanation for success or failure.
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9780801453793 | Cornell Univ Pr, March 1, 2016, cover price $89.95
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9781501703195 | Cornell Univ Pr, March 1, 2016, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: For both the United States and United Kingdom counterinsurgency was a serious component of security policy during the Cold War and, along with counterterrorism, has been the greatest security challenge after September 11, 2001.
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