The Art of Insurgency : American Military Policy and the Failure of Strategy in Southeast Asia
DONALD. HAMILTON
Bok Engelsk 1998 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Santa Barbara : : ABC-CLIO, , 1998.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (212 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Contents; Illustrations; Foreword; Preface; Insurgency and American Military Doctrine: An Introduction; 1. Explaining Insurgency; 2. An Analysis of Two Postwar Asian Insurgencies; 3. The First Vietnamese Insurgency, 1945-1954; 4. Seeds of American Commitment; 5. The Second Vietnamese Insurgency: Phase One; 6. The Second Vietnamese Insurgency: Phase Two; 7. Secondary Insurgency and the American Reaction; Summary Notes on Lessons of a Failed Strategy; Abbreviations; Selected Bibliography; Index. - In his analysis of insurgency war, Donald Hamilton first attempts to provide insight into a strategic concept he believes is little understood today, and to explain its complicated relationship to American policy failures in Southeast Asia during the post-1945 era of containment. The study develops a working model of insurgency, explaining it as both a unique method and type of war-making. Significant findings include the inability of policymakers to perceive a potential insurgency in Vietnam as early as 1946, subsequent American involvement in not one, but three Asian insurgencies during the
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| Dewey | 355 . - 355.02(73)HAM
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| ISBN | 0275957349
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