Treading on Hallowed Ground: Counterinsurgency Operations in Sacred Spaces

by C. Christine Fair (Editor), Sumit Ganguly (Editor)

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After America's Iraq adventure devolved into a debacle, a chorus of commentators and analysts noted that the U.S. military had no plan to fight a counterinsurgency campaign. Given the failure of conventional tactics, America in the last two years has redoubled its efforts to develop a new strategy to fight the Iraqi insurgency, and has gone so far to place our leading counterinsurgency expert, General David Petraeus, in charge of the Iraq theater. In sum, there seems to be a growing consensus that for better or worse, counterinsurgency will be a core tactic in future American military campaigns. Iraq, of course, presents special problems to the U.S. because of the intensity of religious belief and sectarianism. How do we fight against an insurgency that so often strategically positions itself on 'hallowed ground'--mosques and shrines? Yet Iraq is not unique. As the contributors to Treading on Hallowed Ground show, counterinsurgency efforts on religiously contentious terrain is a widespread phenomenon in recent times, ranging from North Africa to Central and Southeast Asia. Here, C. Christine Fair and Sumit Ganguly have assembled an impressive group of experts to explore the most important counterinsurgency efforts in sacred spaces in our era: churches in Israel, mosques and shrines in Iraq, the Sikh Golden Temple in India, mosques and temples in Kashmir, the Krue Se Mosque in Thailand, and the Grand Mosque in Saudi Arabia. Taken together, the essays comprise the first comprehensive account of this increasingly pivotal component of contemporary war.

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"This smart, well-executed set of essays should interest not only tacticians of counterinsurgency warfare but anyone seeking to understand how politicized religion confronts the practical dilemmas of struggling for power"--Jack Snyder, Robert and Renée Belfer Professor of International Relations, Columbia University

"When insurgent or terrorist use the shield of holy places as a weapon of war, how should governments respond? Treading on Hallowed Ground is the best book to appear on this subject. Readers will find clear thinking, clear writing, and complete coverage of relevant history in these pages. This volume will be must reading for all students of counterinsurgency and counter-terror strategy."--Stephen Van Evera, Professor of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

"Christine Fair and Sumit Ganguly have done an admirable job.... Thanks to this book...we can now identify some valuable lessons that warrant our attention."--Small Wars Journal

About the Author

C. Christine Fair is a senior political scientist with the RAND Corporation. Prior to rejoining RAND, she served as a political officer to the United Nations Assistance Mission to Afghanistan in Kabul and as a senior research associate in USIP's Center for Conflict Analysis and Prevention. Her research focuses upon the security competition between India and Pakistan, Pakistan's internal security, the causes of terrorism in South Asia, and U.S. strategic relations with India and Pakistan.

Sumit Ganguly is a Professor of Political Science and holds the Rabindranath Tagore Chair in Indian Cultures and Civilizations and is the Director of Research of the Center on American and Global Security at Indiana University, Bloomington. He is also an Adjunct Fellow of the Pacific Council on International Policy in Los Angeles. He serves on the editorial boards of Asian Affairs, Asian Survey, Current History, the Journal of Democracy, the Journal of Strategic Studies, and Security Studies.

Paperback: 240 pages
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (September 29, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0195342046
ASIN: B005M4ZXCE
Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 0.8 x 6.1 inches
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