Wrong Turn (eBook)

America's Deadly Embrace of Counter-Insurgency

Gian Gentile (Autor)

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2015
354 Seiten
The New Press (Verlag)
978-1-59558-896-8 (ISBN)

Infos

A searing indictment of US strategy in Afghanistan from a distinguished military leader and West Point military historian-"e;A remarkable book"e; (National Review). In 2008, Col. Gian Gentile exposed a growing rift among military intellectuals with an article titled "e;Misreading the Surge Threatens U.S. Army's Conventional Capabilities,"e; that appeared in World Politics Review. While the years of US strategy in Afghanistan had been dominated by the doctrine of counterinsurgency (COIN), Gentile and a small group of dissident officers and defense analysts began to question the necessity and efficacy of COIN essentially armed nation-building in achieving the United States' limited core policy objective in Afghanistan: the destruction of Al Qaeda. Drawing both on the author's experiences as a combat battalion commander in the Iraq War 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 trenchant reevaluation of US operations in Afghanistan. "e;Gentile is convinced that Obama's 'surge' in Afghanistan can't work. . . . And, if Afghanistan doesn't turn around soon, the Democrats . . . who have come to embrace the Petraeus-Nagl view of modern warfare . . . may find themselves wondering whether it's time to go back to the drawing board."e; The New Republic

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 19.7.2019
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: 911 • afghan military • Al Qaeda • antiterrorism • General Petraeus • Hamid Karzai • international conflict • Islamist • Kabul • Kandahar • military occupation • Military power • military response • Military Strategy • Mujahideen • norther alliance • Operation Enduring Freedom • Osama • Osama bin Laden • Pashtun • September 11th attacks • Taliban • war books • war in Afghanistan • War on Terror
• ISBN-10: 1-59558-896-5 / 1595588965
• ISBN-13: 978-1-59558-896-8 / 9781595588968