Wrong Turn

America's Deadly Embrace of Counterinsurgency

Colonel Gian Gentile (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

192 Seiten

2013
The New Press (Verlag)
978-1-59558-874-6 (ISBN)

Infos

While US war strategies have been dominated by the doctrine of counterinsurgency (COIN), Col. Gian Gentile and a group of dissident officers and defence analysts have questioned the efficacy of COIN - essentially armed nation-building. Drawing on Col. Gentile's experiences as a combat battalion commander in Iraq and his research into the application of counterinsurgency in a variety of historical contexts, Wrong Turn is a brilliant summation of Gentile's views of the failures of COIN, as well as a searing re-evaluation of the current state of affairs in Afghanistan.

Autor

Colonel Gian Gentile is an army colonel, a former Iraq War commander, and a professor of history at West Point; he was also a 2010 Visiting Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. Gentile is a contributor to the Washington Post, The Atlantic, Foreign Policy, Small Wars Journal, and the World Politics Review. He lives in West Point, New York.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 10.10.2013
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 146 x 215 mm
• Gewicht: 346 g
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• ISBN-10: 1-59558-874-4 / 1595588744
• ISBN-13: 978-1-59558-874-6 / 9781595588746
• Zustand: Neuware