The Accidental Guerrilla: Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One
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| Rating | : | 4.74 (543 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B0032JKU38 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 503 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-09-12 |
| Language | : | English |
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All rights reserved. . Strategic disruption keeps existing terrorists off balance. Moving beyond a simplistic war on terror depends on rebalancing military and nonmilitary elements of power. This interaction of two kinds of nonstate opponents renders both traditional counterterrorism and counterinsurgency inadequate. It requires limiting the role of government agencies in favor of an indirect approach emphasizing local interests and local relationships. From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. Kilcullen uses Afghanistan and Iraq as primary case studies for a new kind of war that relies on an ability to provoke Western powers into protracted, exhausting, expensive interventions. That may mean full-spectrum assistance, involving an entire society. Not least, Kilcullen says, breaking the terrorist cycle requires establishing patterns of virtue, moral authority, and
Ambitious yet accessible This is an ambitious work, with Kilcullen attempting to encompass everything from tactical to grand strategic responses to insurgency and terrorism in the one relatively short and accessible volume. Key to this work is Kilcullen's understanding of the. "Highly recommend" according to x. This is one of the best books I have read on Counter-insurgency doctrine and the Global War on Terror.I have read Kilcullen's book Counter-Insurgemcy. It was also great, but this one has give me a different perspective on Counter-insurgency and the Gl. The Accidental Guerilla - Small Wars This book is one of the must read although I do not entirely with one of the principles. Mr. Kilcullen asserts his experience shows that the presence of counterinsurgency (COIN) forces may cause the creation of insurgency and migration of internationa
government. Kilcullen is also Adjunct Professor of Security Studies at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and a Fellow at the Center for a New American Security.. David Kilcullen was formerly counterinsurgency advisor to General David Petraeus in Iraq and to the NATO Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan, and currently serves as a consultant to the U.S
Kilcullen takes us "on the ground" to uncover the face of modern warfare, illuminating both the big global war (the "War on Terrorism") and its relation to the associated "small wars" across the globe: Iraq, Afghanistan, the Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand, Chechnya, Pakistan and North Africa. We must learn how to disentangle these strands, develop strategies that deal with global threats, avoid local conflicts where possible, and win them where necessary.Colored with gripping battlefield experiences that range from the jungles and highlands of Southeast Asia to the mountains of the Afghanistan-Pakistan border to the dusty towns of the Middle East, The Accidental Guerrilla will, quite simply, change the way we think about war. This much anticipated book will be a must read for everyone concerned about the war on terror.. A Senior Counterinsurgency Advisor to General David Petraeus in Iraq, his vision of war dramatically influenced America's decision to rethink its military strategy in Iraq and implement "the surge."Now, in The Accidental Guerrilla, Kilcullen provides a remarkably fresh perspective on the War on Terror. He warns that America's actions in the war on terrorism have tended to conflate these trends, blurring the distinction between local and global struggles and thus enormously complicating our challenges. Indeed, the US had done a poor job of applying different tactics to these very different situations,