CIAO DATE: 10/2010

The New Counterinsurgency Era: Transforming the U.S. Military for Modern Wars

July 2009

Georgetown University Press

Abstract

Table of Contents

The New Counterinsurgency Era: Transforming the U.S. Military for Modern Wars
David H. Ucko, Foreword by Lt. Col. John A. Nagl, USA (Ret.)

Foreword

Introduction

1. Framing the Reorientation

2. A Troubled History

3. Revisiting Counterinsurgency

4. Innovation under Fire

5. Counterinsurgency and the QDR

6. FM 3-24 and Operation Fardh Al-Qanoon

7. The Ambivalence of the "Surge"

8. Innovation or Inertia

Conclusion: Kicking the Counterinsurgency Syndrome?

Notes

Bibliography

About the Author

Index

 

Secondary Resources:

• Introduction: The New Counterinsurgency Era [PDF] - 267K