The U.S. Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual
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| Rating | : | 4.94 (610 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0226841510 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 472 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-01-18 |
| Language | : | English |
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Counterinsurgency Field Manual This book has become famous or notorious (take you pick) because it was written under the direction of Gen. David H. Petraeus, as of this review the commanding general of American forces in Iraq. I want to prescind from the Iraq question and address the book on its own merits.First, my qualifications. I am a reti. More Then a Reprint!!! T.A.L. Dozer This is a reprint of the Army/Marine Counter-Insurgency (COIN) manual. But this book is more then a reprint and is worth the money just for the multiple forewords and the Introduction to this edition. All were written by subject matter experts in their field. One foreword in particular is written by John Nagal au. "Very suprised" according to Matthew Smith. I actually bought this book some months back but I kept putting off picking it up because I assumed this would be a dense work filled with military jargon and more acronyms than one could shake a stick at. I assumed that it would be a tedious and difficult read so I found reasons to put it off, but when I finally
“The book to begin with in looking for a revised 21st-century strategy in our war on terror is, unexpectedly, the landmark U.S. Sarah Sewall, a former Pentagon official who teaches at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard has contributed an introduction that should be required reading for anybody who wants to understand the huge demands effective counterinsurgency will place on the military and the voting public."—Samantha Power, New York Times. It was released as a government document in December 2006, but owing to its enormous popularity it has now been published by a university press, with a provocative, highly readable new foreword and introduction that testify to the manual’s ‘paradigm-shattering’ content. Army / Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual
It had neither studied them, nor developed doctrine and tactics to deal with them. It is fair to say that in 2003, most Army officers knew more about the U.S. To learn more about the Fisher House Foundation, visit fisherhouse. . Army / Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual will play a vital role in American military campaigns for years to come. The University of Chicago Press will donate a portion of the proceeds from this book to the Fisher House Foundation, a private-public partnership that supports the families of America’s injured servicemen. military experts, scholars, and practitioners in the field, the manual espouses an approach to combat that emphasizes constant adaptation and learning, the importance of decentralized decision-making, the need to understand local politics and customs, and the key role of intelligence in winning the support of the population. military invaded Iraq, it lacked a common understanding of the problems i