Counterinsurgency in Modern Warfare (Companion)
"Conflicts are outlined along with the strategies that proved successful, making Counterinsurgency in Modern Warfare a fine choice for any serious military library"-The Midwest Book Review(June 2008)"Counterinsurgency in Modern Warfareis a timely, serious, and yet accessible survey, presented by an amazing of experts, of a critical facet of modern warfare and present-day global conflict." -sirreadalot.org(April 2008)"Denial is the subtext ofCounterinsurgency in Modern Warfare.The book's editors, Daniel Marston and Carter Malkasian, present a series of lucid, expert essays on the experiences of conventional military forces adapting to an insurgency. The contributors discuss the British in Ireland, Palestien and Malaya; the Frend in Vietnam and Algeria; the Israelis in the West Bank; and the Americans in all sorts of places... [We] need to add the subject of counterinsurgency to the canon of Army learning, at long last, and never again forget its lesson. We can make a start with this excellent primer of a book." -Robert D. Kaplan,The Wall Street Journal(April 10, 2008)