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Counterinsurgency in Crisis
Long considered the masters of counterinsurgency, the British military encountered significant problems in Iraq and Afghanistan when confronted with insurgent violence. In their effort to apply the principles and doctrines of past campaigns, they failed to prevent Basra and Helmand from descending into lawlessness, criminality, and violence.
By juxtaposing the deterioration of these situations against Britain's celebrated legacy of counterinsurgency, this investigation identifies both the contributions and limitations of traditional tactics in such settings, exposing a disconcerting gap between ambitions and resources, intent and commitment. Building upon this detailed account of the Basra and Helmand campaigns, this volume conducts an unprecedented assessment of British military institutional adaptation in response to operations gone awry. In calling attention to the enduring effectiveness of insurgent methods and the threat posed by undergoverned spaces, David H. Ucko and Robert Egnell underscore the need for military organizations to meet the irregular challenges of future wars in new ways.
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The Insurgency in Chechnya and the North Caucasus: From Gazavat to Jihad
The Insurgency in Chechnya and the North Caucasus: From Gazavat to Jihad is a comprehensive treatment of this 300 year-old conflict. Thematically organized, refreshingly accessible and well-written, it cuts through the rhetoric to provide the critical lens through which readers can truly understand the “why†and “how†of insurgencies and terrorism – and lay bare the intricacies of the Chechen and North Caucasus conflict – one of the world's longest-running contemporary insurgencies. A fascinating case study of a counterinsurgency campaign that is in direct contravention of US and Western doctrine, this book is also the perfect companion to those studying insurgencies because it shows an enemy-centric approach to counterinsurgency in action. As such, it's been chosen as a textbook in numerous terrorism and insurgency programs throughout the world, and named to the “Top 150 Books on Terrorism and Counterterrorism†by the Terrorism Research Initiative. The book examines the differences and linkages between insurgency and terrorism; the origins of conflict in the North Caucasus; and the influences of different strains of Islam, of al-Qaida, and of the War on Terror. A critical examination of never- before-revealed Russian counterinsurgency (COIN) campaigns explains why those campaigns have consistently failed and why the region has seen such an upswing in violence since the conflict was officially declared “over†in 2006.
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Wrong turn : America's deadly embrace of counterinsurgency
\"Colonel Gian Gentile's 2008 article \"Misreading the Surge\" in World Politics Review first exposed a growing rift among military intellectuals that has since been playing out in strategy sessions at the Pentagon, in classrooms at military academies, and on the pages of the New York Times. While the past years of U.S. strategy in Afghanistan have been dominated by the doctrine of counterinsurgency (COIN), Gentile and a small group of dissident officers and defense analysts have questioned 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 searing reevaluation of the current state of affairs in Afghanistan. As the issue of America's withdrawal from Afghanistan inevitably rises to the top of the national agenda, Wrong Turn will be a major new touchstone for what went wrong and a vital new guide to the way forward. Note: the ideas in this book are the author's alone, not the Department of Defense's.\"--Provided by publisher.
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Police, Provocation, Politics
In Police, Provocation,
Politics , Deniz Yonucu presents a
counterintuitive analysis of contemporary policing practices,
focusing particular attention on the incitement of counterviolence,
perpetual conflict, and ethnosectarian discord by the state
security apparatus. Situating Turkish policing within a
global context and combining archival work and oral history
narratives with ethnographic research, Yonucu demonstrates how
counterinsurgency strategies from the Cold War and decolonial eras
continue to inform contemporary urban policing in Istanbul.
Shedding light on counterinsurgency's affect-and-emotion-generating
divisive techniques and urban dimensions, Yonucu shows how
counterinsurgent policing strategies work to intervene in the
organization of political dissent in a way that both counters
existing alignments among dissident populations and prevents
emergent ones.
Yonucu suggests that in the places where racialized and
dissident populations live, provocations of counterviolence and
conflict by state security agents as well as their containment of
both cannot be considered disruptions of social order. Instead,
they can only be conceptualized as forms of governance and policing
designed to manage actual or potential rebellious populations.
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Brutality in an Age of Human Rights
In Brutality in an Age of Human Rights , Brian Drohan
demonstrates that British officials' choices concerning
counterinsurgency methods have long been deeply influenced or even
redirected by the work of human rights activists. To reveal how
that influence was manifested by military policies and practices,
Drohan examines three British counterinsurgency campaigns-Cyprus
(1955-1959), Aden (1963-1967), and the peak of the \"Troubles\" in
Northern Ireland (1969-1976). This book is enriched by Drohan's use
of a newly available collection of 1.2 million colonial-era files,
International Committee of the Red Cross files, the extensive
Troubles collection at Linen Hall Library in Belfast, and many
other sources.
Drohan argues that when faced with human rights activism,
British officials sought to evade, discredit, and deflect public
criticism of their actions to avoid drawing attention to brutal
counterinsurgency practices such as the use of torture during
interrogation. Some of the topics discussed in the book, such as
the use of violence against civilians, the desire to uphold human
rights values while simultaneously employing brutal methods, and
the dynamic of wars waged in the glare of the media, are of
critical interest to scholars, lawyers, and government officials
dealing with the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, and those to
come in the future.
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