Understanding Counterinsurgency: Doctrine, operations, and challenges - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 041577764X ISBN 13: 9780415777643

Publisher: Routledge, 2010

Synopsis

This textbook offers an accessible introduction to counterinsurgency operations, a key aspect of modern warfare.

Featuring essays by some of the world’s leading experts on unconventional conflict, both scholars and practitioners, the book discusses how modern regular armed forces react, and should react, to irregular warfare. The volume is divided into three main sections:

• Doctrinal Origins: analysing the intellectual and historical roots of modern Western theory and practice
• Operational Aspects: examining the specific role of various military services in counterinsurgency, but also special forces, intelligence, and local security forces
• Challenges: looking at wider issues, such as governance, culture, ethics, civil-military cooperation, information operations, and time.

Understanding Counterinsurgency is the first comprehensive textbook on counterinsurgency, and will be essential reading for all students of small wars, counterinsurgency and counterterrorism, strategic studies and security studies, both in graduate and undergraduate courses as well as in professional military schools.

About this title

About the Author

Thomas Rid is a visiting scholar at the Shalem Center in Jerusalem and a non-resident fellow at the Center for Transatlantic Relations in the School for Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University.

Thomas Keaney, Colonel, USAF (Ret.), is Associate Director of Strategic Studies at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 041577764X
• ISBN 13: 9780415777643
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 280
• Editor: Rid Thomas, Keaney Thomas