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Title: Counterinsurgency: Lessons from Iraq and Afghanistan (Features)
Author : Harvard International Review
Release Date : January 22, 2009
Genre: Business & Personal Finance,Books,
Pages : * pages
Size : 1486 KB

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Before the US interventions in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the subsequent outbreak of insurgencies in those countries, counterinsurgency was a badly neglected part of the US defense establishment's security repertoire. During the 1990s, civilian leaders, academic specialists, and the officer corps convinced themselves that insurgency was essentially a Cold War phenomenon. Instead of understanding it as enduring political-military strategy, they perceived insurgency as an operationalized form of Marxism-Leninism (and Maoism, in particular) made irrelevant by the decline of the Soviet and Chinese communist projects. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]