The Insurgents : : David Petraeus and the Plot to Change the American way of war
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"What we need is an officer with three heads" -- "Another type of warfare" -- "Eating soup with a knife" -- Revolutions -- The insurgent at war -- The irregulars -- "Where's my counterinsurgency plan?" -- The Basin Harbor gang -- The directive -- The insurgent in the engine room of change -- The workshop -- Hearts & minds -- "Clear, hold, and build" -- "We are pulling in different directions" -- The field manual -- The surge -- Awakenings -- The insurgent in the Pentagon -- "It is folly" -- COIN vs. CT -- "Storm clouds" -- "A new American way of war".
The inside story of the small group of soldier-scholars who changed the way the Pentagon does business and the American military fights wars, against fierce resistance from within their own ranks.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Simon & Schuster, 2013.
Year Published: 2013
Description: x, 418 p. ; 25 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781451642636
1451642636
9781451642650
1451642652
SUBJECTS
Petraeus, David Howell.
Counterinsurgency -- United States -- History.
Strategic culture -- History.
Generals -- Biography.
Counterinsurgency -- Iraq -- History -- 21st century.
Counterinsurgency -- Afghanistan -- History -- 21st century.
Iraq War, 2003-2011 -- Campaigns.
Afghan War, 2001- -- Campaigns.
United States -- Education.
United States -- Planning.
United States -- History.