Wrong Turn Americaa's Deadly Embrace of Colonel Gian Gentile Hardcover

Description: Title: Wrong Turn: Americaa's Deadly Embrace of Counterinsurgency Author: Gentile, Colonel Gian Publisher: New Press Binding: Hardcover Pages: 208 Dimensions: 8.57h x 5.74w x 0.78d Product Weight: 0.77 lbs. Language: English ISBN: 9781595588746 A searing indictment of US strategy in Afghanistan from a distinguished military leader and West Point military historian--"A remarkable book" (National Review). In 2008, Col. Gian Gentile exposed a growing rift among military intellectuals with an article titled "Misreading the Surge Threatens U.S. Army's Conventional Capabilities," that appeared in World Politics Review. While the years of US strategy in Afghanistan had been dominated by the doctrine of counterinsurgency (COIN), Gentile and a small group of dissident officers and defense analysts began to question the necessity and efficacy of COIN--essentially armed nation-building--in achieving the United States' limited core policy objective in Afghanistan: the destruction of Al Qaeda. Drawing both on the author's experiences as a combat battalion commander in the Iraq War and his research into the application of counterinsurgency in a variety of historical contexts, Wrong Turn is a brilliant summation of Gentile's views of the failures of COIN, as well as a trenchant reevaluation of US operations in Afghanistan. "Gentile is convinced that Obama's 'surge' in Afghanistan can't work. . . . And, if Afghanistan doesn't turn around soon, the Democrats . . . who have come to embrace the Petraeus-Nagl view of modern warfare . . . may find themselves wondering whether it's time to go back to the drawing board." --The New Republic   Ships Fast From The USA! Authorized Dealer

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Book Title: Wrong Turn : America's Deadly Embrace of Counterinsurgency

Number of Pages: 208 Pages

Language: English

Publisher: New Press, T.H.E.

Topic: Public Policy / Military Policy, Military / Strategy, Revolutionary, Military / Afghan War (2001-), World / Middle Eastern, American Government / General, World / Asian

Publication Year: 2013

Item Height: 0.8 in

Illustrator: Yes

Genre: Political Science, History

Item Weight: 12 Oz

Author: Gian Gentile

Item Length: 8.5 in

Item Width: 5.8 in

Format: Hardcover