Counterinsurgency: Strategy and the Phoenix of American CapabilityDIANE Publishing, 1995 |
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... approach to insurgency and implemented it in El Salvador, but this focused on one particular type of insurgency: Maoist "people's war." The El Salvador model may not apply to post-Cold War forms of insurgency. Moreover, many of the ...
... approach to insurgency and implemented it in El Salvador, but this focused on one particular type of insurgency: Maoist "people's war." The El Salvador model may not apply to post-Cold War forms of insurgency. Moreover, many of the ...
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... approach by the imperial metropoles--exacerbated this problem. In Asian and African states where decolonization was peaceful, regimes often found it difficult to build legitimacy because of the taint of association with the colonial ...
... approach by the imperial metropoles--exacerbated this problem. In Asian and African states where decolonization was peaceful, regimes often found it difficult to build legitimacy because of the taint of association with the colonial ...
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... approaches to counterinsurgency grew from the deliberate decision of insurgent strategists to make their struggle neither war nor peace. Western democracies knew how to deal with war and knew how to deal with peace. They were confused ...
... approaches to counterinsurgency grew from the deliberate decision of insurgent strategists to make their struggle neither war nor peace. Western democracies knew how to deal with war and knew how to deal with peace. They were confused ...
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... approach to counterinsurgency eschewed major involvement by the armed forces and stressed advice and assistance . It also grew from Kennedy's confidence in his ability to mobilize public support when necessary . the cause , the effects ...
... approach to counterinsurgency eschewed major involvement by the armed forces and stressed advice and assistance . It also grew from Kennedy's confidence in his ability to mobilize public support when necessary . the cause , the effects ...
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... approach to counterinsurgency . But U.S. strategy and doctrine still reflected the basic assumption that paved the way for escalation in Vietnam : Americans knew how to defeat Maoist " people's war , " but Third World regimes did not ...
... approach to counterinsurgency . But U.S. strategy and doctrine still reflected the basic assumption that paved the way for escalation in Vietnam : Americans knew how to defeat Maoist " people's war , " but Third World regimes did not ...
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Page 8 - ... come into being. History is a better guide than good intentions. A realistic policy which aims at protecting our own interest and assisting the capacities for self-determination of less developed nations will need to face the unpleasant fact that, if victorious, violent insurgency headed by Marxist revolutionaries is unlikely to lead to anything but totalitarian tyranny.