TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ucko,David H.
TI  - The new counterinsurgency era: transforming the U.S. military for modern wars 
SN  - 9781589017283
AV  - U241 .U256 2009eb
U1  - 355.02/180973 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Washington, D.C.
PB  - Georgetown University Press
KW  - Counterinsurgency
KW  - United States
KW  - Iraq War, 2003-2011
KW  - Military planning
KW  - Contre-rébellion
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Guerre en Irak, 2003-2011
KW  - Planification militaire
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - Revolutionary
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - Security (National & International)
KW  - fast
KW  - Military policy
KW  - Aufständischer
KW  - gnd
KW  - Bekämpfung
KW  - Strategie
KW  - Militärpolitik
KW  - Golfkrieg
KW  - 2003
KW  - Iraq
KW  - USA
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-243) and index; Framing the reorientation -- A troubled history -- Revisiting counterinsurgency -- Innovation under fire -- Counterinsurgency and the QDR -- FM 3-24 and Operation Fardh Al-Qanoon -- The ambivalence of the "Surge" -- Innovation or intertia -- Conclusion: kicking the counterinsurgency syndrome?
N2  - Confronting insurgent violence in Iraq and Afghanistan, the U.S. military has recognized the need to "re-learn" counterinsurgency. But how has the Department of Defense with its mixed efforts responded to this new strategic environment? Has it learned anything from past failures? In The New Counterinsurgency Era, David Ucko examines DoD's institutional obstacles and initially slow response to a changing strategic reality. Ucko also suggests how the military can better prepare for the unique challenges of modern warfare, where it is charged with everything from providing security to s
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