The once-neglected study of counter-insurgency operations has recently emerged as an area of central concern for Western governments and their military organizations. While counter-insurgency represents a hugely challenging form of contemporary warfare, there exists a considerable body of experience that offers assistance in the form of examples of both good and bad practice.
The main aim of this book is to present these examples and the lessons that can be drawn from them. Such lessons can be of considerable benefit to todays policy-makers and military practitioners. The book also considers how these lessons can actually fit into the contemporary framework as defined by military, political and institutional logic that shapes and bounds todays counter-insurgency warfare. Dimensions of Counter-Insurgency explores a number of key themes including: the experience of counter-insurgency in the Middle East; the contribution of maritime and air forces; the challenges posed in adapting Western armed forces to their new tasks; and the responses made in light of the perceived need for international action against insurgencies by multilateral institutions such as NATO and the European Union. This book features a broad range of contributions from academics and military thinkers on both sides of the Atlantic.
This was previously published as a special issue of Contemporary Security Policy.
1. Introduction Counter-Insurgency in the Middle East
2. Countering Arab
Insurgencies: The British Experience
3. Orde Wingate and the Special Night
Squads: A Feasible Policy for Counter-Terrorism?
4. The Strategic Information
Campaign: Lessons from the British Experience in Palestine 1945-1948 Maritime
and Air Power
5. The Blue, Green, and Brown: Insurgency and
Counter-Insurgency on the Water
6. Maritime Forces and Counter-Insurgency
7.
Countering Insurgency from the Air: The Postwar Lessons
8. Air Power in
Counter Insurgency: A Sophisticated Language or Blunt Expression? Military
Reform
9. Rethinking US Army Counter-Insurgency Doctrine
10. Of Romans and
Dragons: Preparing the US Marine Corps for Future Warfare The Multilateral
Response
11. NATO and Counter-Insurgency: Strategic Liability or Tactical
Test
12. The European Union and Counter-Insurgency: Capability, Credibility
and Political Will
13. Staying the Course in Fourth-Generation Warfare:
Persuasion, Perseverance in the Era of the Asymmetric Bargaining War
14.
Conclusion: The way Forward
Tim Benbow and Rod Thornton are both lecturers in the Defence Studies Department of King's College, London and at the Joint Services Command and Staff College. Tim Benbow is co-editor of Maritime Power in the 1990-91 Gulf War and the Conflict in the Former Yugoslavia, and author of The Magic Bullet? Understanding the Revolution in Military Affairs. He is a research associate, and Honorary Fellow, of the School of Historical , Political and Social Studies at the University of Exeter. Rod Thornton is a regular guest lecturer on Terrorism at the NATO Defence School in Rome, and on Terrorism/Asymmetric Warfare at Southampton and Oxford Universities. He is the author of Asymmetric Warfare: Threat and Response in the 21st Century.
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