Why Counterinsurgency Fails The US in Iraq and Afghanistan /

• Main Author: de Tray, Dennis (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Security, International.; Politics and war.; Peace.; International relations.; International Security Studies.; Military and Defence Studies.; Conflict Studies.; International Relations Theory.

This book explains how and why the US lost the Iraq and Afghanistan Counterinsurgency Wars and the Vietnam War and sets out a proposal for winning the next insurgency, one field-tested on a small scale in Afghanistan. The author discusses his time with the US Army, first in Iraq as a member of the H...

Table of Contents:

• 1: How It Ended in Afghanistan, How It Started in Iraq
• 2: Reflections on Iraq, 2008
• 3: On to Afghanistan
• 4: Reflections on Afghanistan
• 5: Postscript, 2008: Why Counterinsurgency Is Still Flawed.