The Salvadoran Crucible - 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 Salvadoran Crucible write by Brian D'Haeseleer. This book was released on 2017-12-15. The Salvadoran Crucible available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1979, with El Salvador growing ever more unstable and ripe for revolution, the United States undertook a counterinsurgency intervention that over the following decade would become Washington’s largest nation-building effort since Vietnam. In 2003, policymakers looked to this “successful” undertaking as a model for US intervention in Iraq. In fact, Brian D’Haeseleer argues in The Salvadoran Crucible, the US counterinsurgency in El Salvador produced no more than a stalemate, and in the process inflicted tremendous suffering on Salvadorans for a limited amount of foreign policy gains. D’Haeseleer’s book is a deeply informed, dispassionate account of how the Salvadoran venture took shape, what it actually accomplished, and what lessons it holds. A historical analysis of the origins of US counterinsurgency policy provides context for understanding how precedents informed US intervention in El Salvador. What follows is a detailed, in-depth view of how the counterinsurgency unfolded—the nature, logic, and effectiveness of the policies, initiatives, and operations promoted by American strategists. D’Haeseleer’s account disputes the “success” narrative by showing that El Salvador’s achievements, mainly the spread of democracy, occurred as a result not of the American intervention but of the insurgents’ war against the state. Most significantly, The Salvadoran Crucible contends that the reforms enacted during the war failed to address the underlying causes of the conflict, which today continue to reverberate in El Salvador. The book thus suggests a reassessment of the history of American counterinsurgency, and a course-correction for the future.
The Salvadoran Crucible
The Salvadoran Crucible - 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 Salvadoran Crucible write by Brian D'Haeseleer. This book was released on 2015. The Salvadoran Crucible available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Between 1979 and 1992 the United States engaged in its largest counterinsurgency (COIN) and nation-building exercise since the debacle in South Vietnam. For over twelve years, Washington attempted to establish a moderate government in El Salvador and defeat an insurgency by providing American military aid and training, holding elections, initiating development projects, and carrying out socioeconomic reforms. While the U.S. prevented its Salvadoran ally from economic and political collapse, Washington's efforts did not lead to the resolution of the conflict. Arguably, it prolonged the bloodshed and failed address the grievances that fueled the violence. The inability to address the latter continues to plague El Salvador more than two decades after the end of hostilities. Yet, American military strategists and writers hold up the U.S. effort in El Salvador as a successful application of counterinsurgency. Washington's undertaking in this country has also informed its more recent military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq. Thus, a close examination of the U.S. intervention in El Salvador is required to assess the success narrative and whether it offers instructive lessons for future contingencies.
The Urban Crucible
The Urban Crucible - 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 Urban Crucible write by Gary B. Nash. This book was released on 2009-06-01. The Urban Crucible available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Urban Crucible boldly reinterprets colonial life and the origins of the American Revolution. Through a century-long history of three seaport towns--Boston, New York, and Philadelphia--Gary Nash discovers subtle changes in social and political awareness and describes the coming of the revolution through popular collective action and challenges to rule by custom, law and divine will. A reordering of political power required a new consciousness to challenge the model of social relations inherited from the past and defended by higher classes. While retaining all the main points of analysis and interpretation, the author has reduced the full complement of statistics, sources, and technical data contained in the original edition to serve the needs of general readers and undergraduates.
Cold War Crucible
Cold War Crucible - 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 Cold War Crucible write by Hajimu Masuda. This book was released on 2015-02-09. Cold War Crucible available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. After World War II, the major powers faced social upheaval at home and anticolonial wars around the globe. Alarmed by conflict in Korea that could change U.S.–Soviet relations from chilly to nuclear, ordinary people and policymakers created a fantasy of a bipolar Cold War world in which global and domestic order was paramount, Masuda Hajimu shows.
El Salvadors Civil War
El Salvadors Civil 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 El Salvadors Civil War write by Hugh Byrne. This book was released on 1996. El Salvadors Civil War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Byrne's in depth study of El Salvador's civil war demonstrates that the strategies adopted by incumbent regimes and insurgent movements are key to explaining why revolutions occur and the conditions under which they succeed or fail.
