Counterinsurgency: Exposing the Myths of the New Way of War

Douglas Porch

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1. A 'happy combination of clemency with firmness'. The small wars prologue 2. The road from Sedan 3. The paroxysms of imperial might in the shadow of the Great War 4. From Tipperary to Tel Aviv: British counterinsurgency in the shadow of World War II 5. From small wars to La Guerre Subversive. The radicalization and collapse of French counterinsurgency 6. Vietnam, counterinsurgency, and the American way of war 7. 'A conspiracy of heroes' - revolution and counterinsurgency in Latin America 8. Building the 'most successful counterinsurgency school' - COIN as the British way of war 9. Britain's thirty years' war in Northern Ireland 10. Vietnam with a happy ending - Iraq and 'The Surge' 11. Conclusion Bibliography.

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