The Counterinsurgent Imagination - 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 The Counterinsurgent Imagination write by Joseph MacKay. This book was released on 2022-12-31. The Counterinsurgent Imagination available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A critical intellectual history of counterinsurgency, from early modernity to the present, analyzing military manuals, their authors, and their use.
The Counterinsurgent Imagination
The Counterinsurgent Imagination - 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 The Counterinsurgent Imagination write by Joseph MacKay. This book was released on 2023-01-05. The Counterinsurgent Imagination available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Counterinsurgency, the violent suppression of armed insurrection, is among the dominant kinds of war in contemporary world politics. Often linked to protecting populations and reconstructing legitimate political orders, it has appeared in other times and places in very different forms – and has taken on a range of politics in doing so. How did it arrive at its present form, and what generated these others, along the way? Spanning several centuries and four detailed case studies, The Counterinsurgent Imagination unpacks and explores this intellectual history through counterinsurgency manuals. These military theoretical and instructional texts, and the practitioners who produced them, made counterinsurgency possible in practice. By interrogating these processes, this book explains how counter-insurrectionary war eventually took on its late twentieth and early twenty-first century forms. It shows how and why counterinsurgent ideas persist, despite recurring failures.
Manhood and American Political Culture in the Cold War
Manhood and American Political Culture in the Cold 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 Manhood and American Political Culture in the Cold War write by Kyle A. Cuordileone. This book was released on 2005. Manhood and American Political Culture in the Cold War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Targeting in International Law
Targeting in International Law - 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 Targeting in International Law write by Amin Parsa. This book was released on 2023-12-05. Targeting in International Law available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is about how distinctions are drawn between civilians and combatants in modern warfare and how the legal principle of distinction depends on the technical means through which combatants make themselves visibly distinguishable from civilians. The author demonstrates that technologies of visualisation have always been part of the operation of the principle of distinction, arguing that the military uniform sustained the legal categories of civilian and combatant and actively set the boundaries of permissible and prohibited targeting, and so legal and illegal killing. Drawing upon insights from the theory of legal materiality, visual studies, critical fashion studies, and a dozen of military manuals he shows that far from being passive objects of regulation, these technologies help to draw the boundaries of the legitimate target. With its attention to the co-productive relationship between law, technologies of visualisation and legitimation of violence, this book will be relevant to a large community of researchers in international law, international relations, critical military studies, contemporary counterinsurgency operations and the sociology of law
Bullets Not Ballots
Bullets Not Ballots - 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 Bullets Not Ballots write by Jacqueline L. Hazelton. This book was released on 2021-05-15. Bullets Not Ballots available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Bullets Not Ballots, Jacqueline L. Hazelton challenges the claim that winning "hearts and minds" is critical to successful counterinsurgency campaigns. Good governance, this conventional wisdom holds, gains the besieged government popular support, denies support to the insurgency, and makes military victory possible. Hazelton argues that major counterinsurgent successes since World War II have resulted not through democratic reforms but rather through the use of military force against civilians and the co-optation of rival elites. Hazelton offers new analyses of five historical cases frequently held up as examples of the effectiveness of good governance in ending rebellions—the Malayan Emergency, the Greek Civil War, the Huk Rebellion in the Philippines, the Dhofar rebellion in Oman, and the Salvadoran Civil War—to show that, although unpalatable, it was really brutal repression and bribery that brought each conflict to an end. By showing how compellence works in intrastate conflicts, Bullets Not Ballots makes clear that whether or not the international community decides these human, moral, and material costs are acceptable, responsible policymaking requires recognizing the actual components of counterinsurgent success—and the limited influence that external powers have over the tactics of counterinsurgent elites.
