The New Counter Insurgency Era In Critical Perspective

Download or read book The New Counter-insurgency Era in Critical Perspective written by Celeste Ward Gventer and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-01-21 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The notion of counter-insurgency has become a dominant paradigm in American and British thinking about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. This volume brings together international academics and practitioners to evaluate the broader theoretical and historical factors that underpin COIN, providing a critical reappraisal of counter-insurgency thinking.