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Cargando... Counter-insurgency: Lessons from Historypor Ian F.W. Beckett, John Pimlott
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. A very modern cover for a book that was written in the 1980's and is now reprinted without any change apart from the introduction to the Second Edition. Well is it any good? If like me you love reading about the histories of Armies and counter-insurgency then this is nearly porn. It's divided into 7 chapters each one looking at a different army and it's experience with counter-insurgency between 1945 and 1984. Here are the chapters 1)The British Army: the Dhofar Campaign, 1970-1975 2) The French Army: from Indochina to Chad, 1946-1984 3) The American Army: the Vietnam War, 1965-1973 4) The Latin American Experience: the Tupamaros Campaign in Uruguay, 1963-1973 5) The Portuguese Army, the Campaign in Mozambique, 1964-1974 6) The Rhodesian Army, counter-insurgency, 1972-1979 7) The South African Army, the Campaign in South West Africa/Namibia since 1966. Every chapter is good, my favourite was chapter 3 on the US in Vietnam, very thoughtful and insightful. ( ) sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
Insurgencies are at the centre of most of the conflicts that confront the modern world, and they have been since the Second World War. Leading armies across the globe have well-developed strategies for fighting counterinsurgency campaigns which are continually adjusted and refined as a result of direct experience gained in the field. Understanding this experience and learning the right lessons from it are essential as new insurgencies break out. Perhaps this is especially important today in the wake of the attacks on America and the fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, and that is why this new edition of a pioneering survey of the subject, first published 25 years ago, is of such immediate relevance today. Editors Ian Beckett and John Pimlott brought together a team of expert contributors who provided an international overview of counter-insurgency strategies and techniques as they were perceived and put into practice a generation ago.This historical survey, which covers irregular warfare in countries as widely separated as Chad, Vietnam, Uruguay and Mozambique, will be fascinating reading for anyone studying insurgencies and the armed response to them. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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