Hearts and minds : a people's history of counterinsurgency

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Label

Hearts and minds : a people's history of counterinsurgency

Title remainder

a people's history of counterinsurgency

Statement of responsibility

edited by Hannah Gurman

Contributor

• Gurman, Hannah

Editor

• Gurman, Hannah

Subject

• Counterinsurgency -- Afghanistan -- History -- 21st century
• Counterinsurgency -- El Salvador -- History -- 20th century
• Counterinsurgency -- History -- 20th century -- Case studies
• Counterinsurgency -- History -- 21st century -- Case studies
• Counterinsurgency -- Iraq -- History -- 21st century
• Counterinsurgency -- Malaysia -- History -- 20th century
• Counterinsurgency -- Philippines -- History -- 20th century
• Counterinsurgency -- Vietnam -- History -- 20th century

Genre

• Case studies

Language

eng

Summary

The first book of its kind, "Hearts and Minds" is a scathing response to the grand narrative of U.S. counterinsurgency, in which warfare is defined not by military might alone but by winning the "hearts and minds" of civilians. Dormant as a tactic since the days of the Vietnam War, in 2006 the U.S. Army drafted a new field manual heralding the resurrection of counterinsurgency as a primary military engagement strategy; counterinsurgency campaigns followed in Iraq and Afghanistan, despite the fact that counterinsurgency had utterly failed to account for the actual lived experiences of the people whose hearts and minds America had sought to win. Drawing on leading thinkers in the field and using key examples from Malaya, the Philippines, Vietnam, El Salvador, Iraq, and Afghanistan, "Hearts and Minds" brings a long-overdue focus on the many civilians caught up in these conflicts. Both urgent and timely, this important book challenges the idea of a neat divide between insurgents and the populations from which they emerge--and should be required reading for anyone engaged in the most important contemporary debates over U.S. military policy

Member of

• New Press people's history

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

355.02/1809

Illustrations

• illustrations
• plates

Index

no index present

LC call number

U241

LC item number

.H43 2013

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

New Press people's history