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  • Paperback: 445 pages
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press (August 19, 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1107699843
  • ISBN-13: 978-1107699847
  • Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.8 x 9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
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4.0 out of 5 starsHearts and Minds? I don't think so.
By Walter E. Kurtz on March 31, 2014
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This book covers the development of counterinsurgency doctrine in theory, and how it was applied in practice. It starts with the Vendée war during the French Revolution. For those who don’t know, Vendée was a region of France that was staunchly royalist. When the French monarchy was overthrown by revolutionaries and king Louis XVIII was executed, Vendée rose up in rebellion.
What followed was a counterinsurgency war renowned for its savagery.

Why does the author start with this particular conflict? After all, this was hardly the first insurgency in the history of the world. What had changed was the nature of the French political thought. The revolutionaries back in Paris painted themselves as enlightened, liberal thinkers who were going to start a new golden age. Up until that moment insurgencies were normally put down with violence and terror, but such methods were no longer compatible with the image that the new French government was projecting.

So, the war in the Vendée was supposed to be fought accordingly to new humane rules. Except that it wasn’t. The government troops waged a war against the insurgents that was in no way different from the old wars. They fell back on mass violence, mass terror, mass destruction, mass plunder and collective punishments to crush the insurgency.

This became a common recurring theme in all future counterinsurgencies. The author goes over such wars as the Spanish insurrection against Napoleon, conquest of Algeria, colonial wars in Africa and Asia, American invasion of Cuba and Philippines, the Boer war, all the way to current war in Iraq. He focuses on the experiences of the French, British and Americans.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsA Can of Worms Finally Released and Emptied
By A.Bodhi on September 13, 2013
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This book hits home at a personal level, yet it offers a well researched--NOT A WELL FABRICATED BATCH OF USA PROPAGANDA--historical documentation of what has become known as Western Counter-Insurgency, and then proceeds to expose it for what COIN really is: "Petty War" tactics and nothing special at all.

During the unpopular conflict in Southeast Asia, neck deep in this fiasco, I smelled something horribly rotten and never could put my finger on. I was well read in the current Insurgency and COIN documents from all the well knowns, but what I saw unfold before me and what I read and was taught as US Military Doctrine were diametrically opposite one another.

The level of savagery and brutality elicited upon the peoples of the south for whom we were there to supposedly help, the corruption in both our government, especailly in the SpecOps groups, and the southern government and its military we worked to create and support, the utilization of indigenous mountain peoples we exploited as hunters exploit their hunting dogs, and the openly elitist view the US Military, both conventional and SpecForces groups harbored toward all of peoples in this region, really is par for the course, when discussing USA/British/French Colonial inspired COIN. This book LITERALLY documents these facts beginning from the Preface to the Conclusion, ripping SOCOM a "new one."

As Porch stipulates throughout the book, tactics are not the problem--something the USA has learned to excel at accomplishing. Tactics elicited, possessing no genuine, paradoxically solid, yet flexible strategic end, other than cramming Western democracy down peoples' throats, who often do not even understand this concept, and doing it all through well executed military tactical force, is a prime recipe for failure.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsThe pendullum swings yet again
By Art M. Loureiro on October 16, 2013
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Dr. Doug Porch has provided us with a compelling argument that "war is war" irrespective of the label we put on it. Having served multiple combat tours and watched the evolution of the COINdinistas argument in handling these types of conflicts, I can attest that the points made by Dr. Porch are valid. Highly recommend this book to anyone who has an interest on the application of force to achieve political objectives. Clausewitz is not dead as some would wish...
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5.0 out of 5 starsCOIN, Path to Disaster?
By Motown on November 22, 2014
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An excellent, thought-provoking book that uses history to make judgments about current and future U.S. military strategy. I found his analysis of events in the middle east and Indochina particularly prescient.
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