The Counterinsurgent Imagination: A New Intellectual History

ISBN-13: 9781009225823 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 300 str.

Canberra) MacKay Joseph (Australian National University

Opis

A critical intellectual history of counterinsurgency, from early modernity to the present, analyzing military manuals, their authors, and their use.

Recenzje

'This is a fascinating re-reading of counterinsurgency field manuals as a form of conservative, high modern utopianism. Often reactionary, always violent, these documents and the wars they authorise are conservative and world-making projects of empire. This is an important addition to the critical literature on counterrevolutionary war.' Patricia Owen, Professor of International Relations, University of Oxford

Spis treści

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.