The Counterinsurgent Imagination

Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-1-009-22582-3
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 300 Seiten, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 457 g

Reihe: LSE International Studies

Counterinsurgency, the violent suppression of armed insurrection, is among the dominant kinds of war in contemporary world politics. Often linked to protecting populations and reconstructing legitimate political orders, it has appeared in other times and places in very different forms – and has taken on a range of politics in doing so. How did it arrive at its present form, and what generated these others, along the way? Spanning several centuries and four detailed case studies, The Counterinsurgent Imagination unpacks and explores this intellectual history through counterinsurgency manuals. These military theoretical and instructional texts, and the practitioners who produced them, made counterinsurgency possible in practice. By interrogating these processes, this book explains how counter-insurrectionary war eventually took on its late twentieth and early twenty-first century forms. It shows how and why counterinsurgent ideas persist, despite recurring failures.

Autoren/Hrsg.

MacKay, Joseph

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction; 2. Counterrevolutionary war, early modernity to present; 3. Johann Ewald in America; 4. C. E. Callwell and the British empire; 5. David Galula in Algeria; 6. Field manual 3-24 and the Iraq war; 7. Conclusion; References.

Über Autor(innen)

MacKay, Joseph
Joseph MacKay is a Fellow in the Department of International Relations, Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, Australian National University. He works on historical international security, international hierarchies, and the history of international thought.