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Hearts and Minds : A People's History of Counterinsurgency by Hannah Gurman (2013, Trade Paperback)
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PublisherNew Press, T.H.E.
ISBN-101595588256
ISBN-139781595588258
eBay Product ID (ePID)166308100
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Book TitleHearts and Minds : a People's History of Counterinsurgency
Number of Pages304 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2013
TopicMilitary / Strategy, Revolutionary, Military / United States, Social History, General
IllustratorYes
GenreLaw, History
AuthorHannah Gurman
Book SeriesNew Press People's History Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
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Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight12 Oz
Item Length8.3 in
Item Width5.5 in
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ReviewsCounterinsurgency is a tactical phoenix, dying only to rise again, everready to win hearts and minds for the American empire…This essential volume makes it possible to understand the past and prepare for the next time the siren song of counterinsurgency is sung. -Marilyn Young, Professor of History, New York University, "Counterinsurgency is a tactical phoenix, dying only to rise again, ever-ready to win hearts and minds for the American empire. This essential volume makes it possible to understand the past and prepare for the next time the siren song of counterinsurgency is sung." --Marilyn Young "Hannah Gurman has assembled a groundbreaking volume filled with fresh perspectives and revealing insights. If you want to understand America's recent debacles in Iraq and Afghanistan, Hearts and Minds is essential reading." --Nick Turse, author of Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam "Essential reading for anyone who wants to see beyond the illusions about counterinsurgency warfare that the U.S. and British governments and media have sold their people. These histories show that, despite decades of occupations and well-funded and well-lauded strategic thinking, the hearts and minds of the occupied have remained beyond their militaries' ken and control." --Catherine Lutz, author of The Bases of Empire and a contributor to The Counter-Counterinsurgency Manual "With America creeping toward military intervention in the Syrian civil war, Hannah Gurman's volume comes at an opportune time. While generals offer up moralistic bromides about protecting foreign populations at the barrel of an American gun, Hearts and Minds lays bare the brutal and destructive truth behind American military activism in the world." --Colonel Gian Gentile, Praise for Hearts and Minds : "Counterinsurgency is a tactical phoenix, dying only to rise again, ever-ready to win hearts and minds for the American empire...This essential volume makes it possible to understand the past and prepare for the next time the siren song of counterinsurgency is sung." --Marilyn Young, Professor of History, New York University, "Counterinsurgency is a tactical phoenix, dying only to rise again, ever-ready to win hearts and minds for the American empire. This essential volume makes it possible to understand the past and prepare for the next time the siren song of counterinsurgency is sung." —Marilyn Young "Hannah Gurman has assembled a groundbreaking volume filled with fresh perspectives and revealing insights. If you want to understand America's recent debacles in Iraq and Afghanistan, Hearts and Minds is essential reading." —Nick Turse, author of Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam "Essential reading for anyone who wants to see beyond the illusions about counterinsurgency warfare that the U.S. and British governments and media have sold their people. These histories show that, despite decades of occupations and well-funded and well-lauded strategic thinking, the hearts and minds of the occupied have remained beyond their militaries' ken and control." —Catherine Lutz, author of The Bases of Empire and a contributor to The Counter-Counterinsurgency Manual "With America creeping toward military intervention in the Syrian civil war, Hannah Gurman's volume comes at an opportune time. While generals offer up moralistic bromides about protecting foreign populations at the barrel of an American gun, Hearts and Minds lays bare the brutal and destructive truth behind American military activism in the world." —Colonel Gian Gentile, "Counterinsurgency is a tactical phoenix, dying only to rise again, ever-ready to win hearts and minds for the American empire. This essential volume makes it possible to understand the past and prepare for the next time the siren song of counterinsurgency is sung." --Marilyn Young "Hannah Gurman has assembled a groundbreaking volume filled with fresh perspectives and revealing insights. If you want to understand America's recent debacles in Iraq and Afghanistan, Hearts and Minds is essential reading." --Nick Turse, author of Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam "Essential reading for anyone who wants to see beyond the illusions about counterinsurgency warfare that the U.S. and British governments and media have sold their people. These histories show that, despite decades of occupations and well-funded and well-lauded strategic thinking, the hearts and minds of the occupied have remained beyond their militaries' ken and control." --Catherine Lutz, author of The Counterinsurgency Manual and An Empire of Bases "With America creeping toward military intervention in the Syrian civil war, Hannah Gurman's volume comes at an opportune time. While generals offer up moralistic bromides about protecting foreign populations at the barrel of an American gun, Hearts and Minds lays bare the brutal and destructive truth behind American military activism in the world." --Colonel Gian Gentile
Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal355.021809
SynopsisSince 2006, counterinsurgency has been the guiding doctrine of the U.S. military establishment. The first book of its kind, Hearts and Minds meets counter-insurgency proponents on their own playing field, retelling the history of counterinsurgency from the perspective of the populations whose hearts and minds have been fought over since the end of World War II., 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.
LC Classification NumberU241.H43 2013
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