Description
The once-neglected study of counter-insurgency operations has recently emerged as an area of central concern for Western governments and their military organizations. While counter-insurgency represents a hugely challenging form of contemporary warfare, there exists a considerable body of experience that offers assistance in the form of examples of
Table of Contents
1. Introduction Counter-Insurgency in the Middle East 2. Countering Arab Insurgencies: The British Experience 3. Orde Wingate and the Special Night Squads: A Feasible Policy for Counter-Terrorism? 4. The Strategic Information Campaign: Lessons from the British Experience in Palestine 1945-1948 Maritime and Air Power 5. The Blue, Green, and Brown: Insurgency and Counter-Insurgency on the Water 6. Maritime Forces and Counter-Insurgency 7. Countering Insurgency from the Air: The Postwar Lessons 8. Air Power in Counter Insurgency: A Sophisticated Language or Blunt Expression? Military Reform 9. Rethinking US Army Counter-Insurgency Doctrine 10. Of Romans and Dragons: Preparing the US Marine Corps for Future Warfare The Multilateral Response 11. NATO and Counter-Insurgency: Strategic Liability or Tactical Test 12. The European Union and Counter-Insurgency: Capability, Credibility and Political Will 13. Staying the Course in ‘Fourth-Generation Warfare’: Persuasion, Perseverance in the Era of the Asymmetric Bargaining War 14. Conclusion: The way Forward
