Understanding Counterinsurgency: Doctrine, operations, and challenges

by Thomas Rid and Thomas Keaney

Book Overview

This textbook offers an accessible introduction to counterinsurgency operations, a key aspect of modern warfare.

Featuring essays by some of the world's leading experts on unconventional conflict, both scholars and practitioners, the book discusses how modern regular armed forces react, and should react, to irregular warfare. The volume is divided into three main sections:

Doctrinal Origins: analysing the intellectual and historical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415777658
• ISBN13: 9780415777650
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.8" x 9.5"