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Learning to forget : US Army counterinsurgency doctrine and practice from Vietnam to Iraq /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fitzgerald, David, 1984- (Author)
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2013]
Subjects:
Counterinsurgency > United States > History.
United States. > Army > History.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 > United States.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 > Influence.
Iraq War, 2003-2011.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : counterinsurgency and the uses of history
  • The Army's counterinsurgency war in Vietnam
  • "Out of the rice paddies" : the 1970s and the decline of counterinsurgency
  • Low intensity conflict in the Reagan years
  • Peacekeeping and operations other than war in the 1990s
  • Mr. Rumsfeld's war : transformation, doctrine and planning for Iraq
  • Counterinsurgency and "Vietnam" in Iraq 2003-2006
  • The return to counterinsurgency : FM 3-24 and the "surge"
  • A never-ending war? : the renegotiation of "Vietnam" in Afghanistan.