Learning to forget : US Army counterinsurgency doctrine and practice from Vietnam to Iraq / David Fitzgerald
- Author
- Fitzgerald, David, 1984-
- Published
- Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, 2013.
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (x, 285 pages)
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- Contents
- Introduction : counterinsurgency and the uses of history -- The Army's counterinsurgency war in Vietnam -- "Out of the rice paddies" : the 1970s and the decline of counterinsurgency -- Low intensity conflict in the Reagan years -- Peacekeeping and operations other than war in the 1990s -- Mr. Rumsfeld's war : transformation, doctrine and planning for Iraq -- Counterinsurgency and "Vietnam" in Iraq 2003-2006 -- The return to counterinsurgency : FM 3-24 and the "surge" -- A never-ending war? : the renegotiation of "Vietnam" in Afghanistan.
- Summary
- 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 counterinsurgency. These lessons, and the fortunes of counterinsurgency, were inextricably tied to the contemporary challenges the Army saw itself facing.
- Subject(s)
- United States. Army—History
- États-Unis. Army—Histoire
- United States. Army
- 1961-2011
- Counterinsurgency—United States—History
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975—United States
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975—Influence
- Iraq War, 2003-2011
- Contre-rébellion—États-Unis—Histoire
- Guerre du Viêt-nam, 1961-1975—Influence
- Guerre en Irak, 2003-2011
- HISTORY—Military—Other
- TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING—Military Science
- POLITICAL SCIENCE—Security (National & International)
- Counterinsurgency
- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
- Iraq
- United States
- Iraq War (2003-2011)
- Vietnam War (1961-1975)
- Genre(s)
- ISBN
- 0804786429 (electronic bk.)
9780804786423 (electronic bk.)
9780804785815 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0804785813 (cloth ; alk. paper) - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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