The New Counter-Insurgency Era in Critical Perspective

by Celeste Ward Gventer and M.L.R. Smith

The notion of counter-insurgency has become a dominant paradigm in American and British thinking about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. This volume brings together international academics and practitioners to evaluate the broader theoretical and historical factors that underpin COIN, providing a critical reappraisal of counter-insurgency thinking.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137336935
• ISBN13: 9781137336934
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 375 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.8" x 8.7"