Rolling back revolution
Subtitle: the emergence of low intensity conflict
By: Ivan Molloy.
Publisher: Pluto Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: London; Sterling, Va
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
Subjects: Low-intensity conflicts (Military science) -- United States.; United States -- Foreign relations -- 1981-1989.; United States -- Foreign relations -- 1989-; United States -- Military policy.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Introduction 1; title: A Fresh Perspective 2; title: The Argument in a Nutshell 2; title: LIC in Context 7; title: A New Perspective 8; title: The Approach 10; title: The Scope 12; title: Terminology; title: 13; title: 1. What is LIC? 15; title: The Strategy's Broad Thrust 15; title: A Definition of Low Intensity Conflict 16; title: The LIC Conflict Profile 19; title: The Need for Context? 31; title: 2. An Inevitable Strategy: LIC's Emergence in Context 32; title: Continuity and Discontinuity 32; title: Old and New 48; title: The Status of LIC 51; title: The Development of the Full Profile 53; title: An Expected Foreign Policy Initiative? 54; title: 3. From Approach to Strategy 55; title: Self-Analysis and Debate: The Influence of Vietnam 55; title: The Debate Within the Reagan Administration and the Military 62; title: Evidence of LIC Gaining Coherence 65; title: The Strategy Emerges 70; title: 4. The Reagan Doctrine: Selling LIC To America 72; title: What was the Reagan Doctrine? 73; title: The Reagan Doctrine as an Expression of Low Intensity Conflict 83; title: 5. Central America: The Strategy's Proving Ground? 86; title: Central America as the Focus of US Foreign Policy 86; title: The Determinants of LIC 88; title: The Determinants/Preconditions for LIC 99; title: The Emergence of Low Intensity Conflict 102; title: 6. Nicaragua and Revolutionary LIC 104; title: The Political/Psychological Dimension 104; title: The Economic Dimension 114; title: The Military Dimension 116; title: The Civic Action Dimension 124; title: Nicaragua and the Strategy of LIC 125; title: 7. LIC in the Philippines? 127; title: The Determinants of the Response 128; title: The Need for a New Approach 132; title: The Reagan Administration Responds 133; title: The Third Way - The LIC Response 134; title: LIC Characteristics 134; title: The Collective Response 142; title: 8. The Counter-Revolutionary Profile 143; title: The Political/Psychological Dimension 143; title: The Economic Dimension 155; title: The Military Dimension 156; title: The Civic Action Dimension - Completing the Picture 161; title: A Characteristic LIC Response? 163; title: 9. LIC Continued? 167; title: LIC Emergent 168; title: The Success of Reagan's LIC? 173; title: An Ongoing Strategy 174.