Learning to Forget: US Army Counterinsurgency Doctrine and Practice from Vietnam to Iraq

by David Fitzgerald and David Fitzgerald

Book Overview

Learning to Forget analyzes the evolution of US counterinsurgency (COIN) doctrine over the last five decades. Beginning with an extensive section on the lessons of Vietnam, it traces the decline of COIN in the 1970s, then the rebirth of low intensity conflict through the Reagan years, in the conflict in Bosnia, and finally in the campaigns of Iraq and Afghanistan. Ultimately it closes the loop by explaining how, by confronting the lessons...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804793379
• ISBN13: 9780804793377
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: Stanford Security Studies
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"