Wrong Turn
America's Deadly Embrace of Counter-Insurgency
A searing indictment of US strategy in Afghanistan from a distinguished military leader and West Point military historian-A remarkable book (National Review). In 2008, Col. Gian Gentile exposed a growing rift among military intellectuals with an article titled Misreading the Surge Threatens U.S. Army's Conventional Capabilities, 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 achievin…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Gentile, Gian
- ISBN: 978-1-59558-896-8
- EAN: 9781595588968
- Produktnummer: 22228012
- Verlag: The New Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 354 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
Über den Autor
Colonel Gian Gentile is an army colonel, a former Iraq War commander, and a professor of history at West Point; he was also a 2010 Visiting Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. Gentile is a contributor to the Washington Post, The Atlantic, Foreign Policy, Small Wars Journal, and the World Politics Review. He lives in West Point, New York.
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