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Doctrine
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TL;DR: The authors argues that historical claims for COIN success, based on courting popular gratitude by improving economic conditions, are at best anchored in selective historical memory, when not fantasy fabrications, and that COIN does not constitute a distinct form of warfare, but merely a sub-set of minor tactics.
Abstract: Counterinsurgency (COIN) has again emerged as a topic of both contemporary and historical interest in the age of what has been called a global counterinsurgency. However, little attention is being paid to the historical lineage of a COIN doctrine that is being rediscovered and promoted by an enthusiastic group of military intellectuals and commanders as the basis for US Army and Marine Corps doctrine. This article argues that historical claims for COIN success, based on courting popular gratitude by improving economic conditions, are at best anchored in selective historical memory, when not fantasy fabrications. The first argument of this article is that COIN does not constitute a distinct form of warfare, but merely a sub-set of minor tactics. Second, ‘hearts and minds’, so-called population-centric warfare, has seldom been a recipe for lasting stability. Rather, historically counterinsurgency succeeded when it has shattered and divided societies by severely disrupting civilian life. In fact, COIN is a n...
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TL;DR: The UN Security Council has a tendency to push the boundaries of UN peacekeeping beyond traditional doctrine by equipping peace operations with ever more sophisticated equipment as discussed by the authors, and this trend has been observed for decades.
Abstract: Recent scholarship has discerned an increasing tendency of the UN Security Council to push the boundaries of UN peacekeeping beyond traditional doctrine by equipping peace operations with ever more...
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TL;DR: The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism as discussed by the authors is a seminal work in the field of development studies, focusing on the early stages of the 21st century and its evolution.
Abstract: (2009). The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. Canadian Journal of Development Studies / Revue canadienne d'etudes du developpement: Vol. 28, No. 3-4, pp. 613-614.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the evolution of modern warfare in the Confederate Army of the Potomac and the emergence of the Third Line of the Confederate Defense in the early 1800s.
Abstract: Acknowledgments Introduction Ideas and Education 1. Theory, Doctrine, and the Tactical Maze: From Jomini to Dennis Hart Mahan Early Change and Continuity in the East 2. Tactical and Strategic Reorganization: McCleilan and the Origins of Professionalism 3. More Reorganization: The Army of the Potomac Elan, Tradition, and Change in Confederate Virginia 4. Elan and Organization: Early Field Command in Virginia 5. Intimations of Modern Warfare: Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia Continuity and Change Western Style 6.Manuever and Tactics: The First and Second Lines of Confederate Defense 7. The Emergence of Trench Warfare: The Third Lines of Confederate Defense 8. Trench Warfare and Maneuver Organizational Irony 9. Loss of Legitimacy: The Peculiar Fate of Engineering Organization New Thresholds of Modern Warfare 10. Position and Attrition: From the Wilderness to Richmond 11. Organization, Maneuver, and the Strategy of Exhaustion: To Atlanta and Beyond Notes Works Cited Index Illustrations Follow p. 78
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01 Jan 1949
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