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The Counterinsurgent Imagination
Joseph MacKay
其他書名
A New Intellectual History
出版
Cambridge University Press
, 2023-01-05
主題
Political Science / International Relations / General
History / Military / General
History / Social History
ISBN
1009225790
9781009225793
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=5tWnEAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
Counterinsurgency, the violent suppression of armed insurrection, is among the dominant kinds of war in contemporary world politics. Often linked to protecting populations and reconstructing legitimate political orders, it has appeared in other times and places in very different forms – and has taken on a range of politics in doing so. How did it arrive at its present form, and what generated these others, along the way? Spanning several centuries and four detailed case studies, The Counterinsurgent Imagination unpacks and explores this intellectual history through counterinsurgency manuals. These military theoretical and instructional texts, and the practitioners who produced them, made counterinsurgency possible in practice. By interrogating these processes, this book explains how counter-insurrectionary war eventually took on its late twentieth and early twenty-first century forms. It shows how and why counterinsurgent ideas persist, despite recurring failures.