A Comparison of Counter-insurgency Strategies Used in the Malayan Emergency and the Vietnam War - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Comparison of Counter-insurgency Strategies Used in the Malayan Emergency and the Vietnam War write by Michael A S. Shaik. This book was released on 1990. A Comparison of Counter-insurgency Strategies Used in the Malayan Emergency and the Vietnam War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam
Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam write by John Nagl. This book was released on 2002-10-30. Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Armies are invariably accused of preparing to fight the last war. Nagl examines how armies learn during the course of conflicts for which they are initially unprepared in organization, training, and mindset. He compares the development of counterinsurgency doctrine and practice in the Malayan Emergency from 1948-1960 with that developed in the Vietnam Conflict from 1950-1975, through use of archival sources and interviews with participants in both conflicts. In examining these two events, he argues that organizational culture is the key variable in determining the success or failure of attempts to adapt to changing circumstances. Differences in organizational culture is the primary reason why the British Army learned to conduct counterinsurgency in Malaya while the American Army failed to learn in Vietnam. The American Army resisted any true attempt to learn how to fight an insurgency during the course of the Vietnam Conflict, preferring to treat the war as a conventional conflict in the tradition of the Korean War or World War II. The British Army, because of its traditional role as a colonial police force and the organizational characteristics that its history and the national culture created, was better able to quickly learn and apply the lessons of counterinsurgency during the course of the Malayan Emergency. This is the first study to apply organizational learning theory to cases in which armies were engaged in actual combat.
Hearts and Minds
Hearts and Minds - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hearts and Minds write by Hannah Gurman. This book was released on 2013-10-01. Hearts and Minds available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The first book of its kind, Hearts and Minds is a scathing response to the grand narrative of U.S. counterinsurgency, in which warfare is defined not by military might alone but by winning the "hearts and minds" of civilians. Dormant as a tactic since the days of the Vietnam War, in 2006 the U.S. Army drafted a new field manual heralding the resurrection of counterinsurgency as a primary military engagement strategy; counterinsurgency campaigns followed in Iraq and Afghanistan, despite the fact that counterinsurgency had utterly failed to account for the actual lived experiences of the people whose hearts and minds America had sought to win. Drawing on leading thinkers in the field and using key examples from Malaya, the Philippines, Vietnam, El Salvador, Iraq, and Afghanistan, Hearts and Minds brings a long-overdue focus on the many civilians caught up in these conflicts. Both urgent and timely, this important book challenges the idea of a neat divide between insurgents and the populations from which they emerge—and should be required reading for anyone engaged in the most important contemporary debates over U.S. military policy.
A Counter Insurgency Study
A Counter Insurgency Study - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Counter Insurgency Study write by Sergio Giampietri. This book was released on 2004-09-01. A Counter Insurgency Study available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Local Defenses are viewed by many counterinsurgency strategists as an essential element in defeating an insurgency. Providing a population with a local defense organization will strongly support the government's strategy of extending its security and control over the rural areas affected by insurgent organizations. However every insurgency is unique and demands a unique counterinsurgency strategy to be defeated. There always will be an important commonality: insurgent organizations need popular support to subsist. The final success of the government or the insurgents will be determined by the capacity of either both to win and retain the support among the rural population. The analysis of the four cases presented in this study clearly demonstrates each government's approach to the insurgent problem, including the use of local defenses to protect rural populations from insurgent attacks and influence. The organization of local defenses during the Malayan Emergency, the El Salvador's Civil War, as well as the Vietnam War and the Terrorist Epoch in Peru proved to be a force multiplier for the government s effort, at least during the time period in which they were effectively implemented. The contribution of this analysis is not that of providing a framework or recipe for strategists to implement this kind of organizations. Rather, the contribution of this study is on a set of variables to be considered when planning the implementation of local defenses as part of a counterinsurgency effort.
Defeating Communist Insurgency
Defeating Communist Insurgency - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Defeating Communist Insurgency write by Sir Robert Thompson. This book was released on 1966. Defeating Communist Insurgency available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Erfaringer i bekæmpelse af oprør og guerillabevægelser i Malaysia og Vietnam.
