Learning to forget US Army counterinsurgency doctrine and practice from Vietnam to Iraq / David Fitzgerald.

Author/creator Fitzgerald, David, 1984-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoStanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2013]
Descriptionx, 285 pages ; 24 cm
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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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 215-274) and index.
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Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2012043943
ISBN9780804785815 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0804785813 (cloth : alk. paper)

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