Learning to forget : US Army counterinsurgency doctrine and practice from Vietnam to Iraq / David Fitzgerald.

This book is a study of how the lessons of the Vietnam War influenced Army attitudes towards counterinsurgency in the post-Vietnam era, with a particular focus on the interplay between military doctrine and history. It demonstrates that Vietnam had a profound effect on Army attitudes towards counter...

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Main Author: Fitzgerald, David, 1984- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Stanford, California : Stanford Security Studies, 2013.
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505 0 |a Introduction: Counterinsurgency and the Uses of History; Chapter 1: The Army's Counterinsurgency War in Vietnam; Chapter 2: "Out of the Rice Paddies " -- The 1970s and the Decline of Counterinsurgency; Chapter 3: Low-Intensity Conflict in the Reagan Years; Chapter 4: Peacekeeping and Operations Other Than War In The 1990S; Chapter 5: Mr. Rumsfeld's War: Transformation, Doctrine, and "Phase IV" Planning for Iraq; Chapter 6: Counterinsurgency and "Vietnam" in Iraq, 2003-2006; Chapter 7: The Return of Counterinsurgency: FM 3-24 and the "Surge." 
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