The Strategic Use of Force in Counterinsurgency: Find, Fix, Fight

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The Strategic Use of Force in Counterinsurgency
The Strategic Use of Force in Counterinsurgency: Find, Fix, Fight
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Contents
List of Figure and Table
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1
The Utility of Force and the Definition of Terms
Section 1: The Utility of Force
Section 2: The Definitions of Insurgency and Counterinsurgency
Section 3: The Neo-Classicist/Revisionist Debate over the Nature of Insurgency and the Utility of Counterinsurgency in the post-Cold War World
Conclusion
Notes
Chapter 2
Research Approach
Section 1: Competing Research Paradigms: Sciences of Structure versus Sciences of Process
Section 2: Historical Studies and Counterfactual Reasoning
Section 3: Research Traditions within Strategic Studies
Section 4: Research Traditions within the Study of Counterinsurgency
Section 5: Organizing Concepts in Evaluating the Use of Force
Section 6: Summary and Steps Taken in This Book’s Empirical Research
Notes
Chapter 3
Strategic Assessment of British Counterinsurgency during the Malayan Emergency
How the Strategic Aspects of the Malayan Emergency Conform to the BHS Themes
Historical Narrative of the Malayan Emergency
Comparison to Galula
Comparison with the Win-Loss Spectrum
Counterfactual Analysis of the Malayan Emergency
Conclusions
Note
Chapter 4
Strategic Assessment of American Counterinsurgency during the Vietnam War
How the Strategic Aspects of the Vietnam War Conform to the BHS Themes
Historical Narrative of the Vietnam War
Comparison to Galula
Comparison to Win-loss Spectrum
Counterfactual Analysis of the Vietnam War
Conclusions
Note
Chapter 5
Strategic Assessment of Coalition Counterinsurgency during the Iraq War
How the Strategic Aspects of the Iraq War Conform to the BHS Themes
Historical Narrative of the Iraq War
Comparison to Galula
Comparison to Win-Loss Spectrum
Counterfactual Analysis of the Iraq War
Conclusions
Notes
Conclusion
Reference List
Index
About the Author