Wrong Turn America's Deadly Embrace of Counter-Insurgency【電子書籍】[ Gian Gentile ]

＜p＞＜strong＞A searing indictment of US strategy in Afghanistan from a distinguished military leader and West Point military historianー"A remarkable book" ( ＜em＞National Review＜/em＞).＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞In 2008, Col. Gian Gentile exposed a growing rift among military intellectuals with an article titled "Misreading the Surge Threatens U.S. Army's Conventional Capabilities," that appeared in ＜em＞World Politics Review＜/em＞. While the years of US strategy in Afghanistan had been dominated by the doctrine of counterinsurgency (COIN), Gentile and a small group of dissident officers and defense analysts began to question the necessity and efficacy of COINーessentially armed nation-buildingーin achieving the United States' limited core policy objective in Afghanistan: the destruction of Al Qaeda.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Drawing both on the author's experiences as a combat battalion commander in the Iraq War and his research into the application of counterinsurgency in a variety of historical contexts, ＜em＞Wrong Turn．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る