The soul of armies
Subtitle: counterinsurgency doctrine and military culture in the US and UK
By: Austin Long
Series: Cornell studies in security affairs; Cornell studies in security affairs
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Ithaca; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 275
ISBN-13: 9780801453793; 9781501703195
Subjects: Military doctrine; Counterinsurgency; Attitudes; Armed Forces
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Military doctrine and the challenge of counterinsurgency; title: Culture, doctrine, and military professionalization; title: "The habits and usages of war": U.S. army professionalization, 1865-1962; title: From the halls of Montezuma: Marine Corps professionalization, 1865-1960; title: A family of regiments: British Army professionalization, 1856-1948; title: "A nasty, untidy mess": U.S. counterinsurgency in Vietnam, 1960-71; title: A natural experiment in I Corps, 1966-68; title: Out of Africa: British Army counterinsurgency in Kenya, 1952-56; title: Counterinsurgency in the land of two rivers: the Americans and British in Iraq, 2003-8; title: Counterinsurgency in Afghanistan, 2003-11.