books about: counterinsurgency     books:     Counterinsurgency      The Strongest Tribe: War, Politics, and the Endgame in Iraq Bing West Random House, 2008 Best of the Best All previous reviewers have rated the book 5 stars. There is little I can add to improve on their praise. "Ditto" to all the reviews! This is the "Best Book" of an overview of the war's best and worst from start to current. Our soldiers once again prove we have the ...             The U.S. Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual University of Chicago Press, 2007 Very suprised I actually bought this book some months back but I kept putting off picking it up because I assumed this would be a dense work filled with military jargon and more acronyms than one could shake a stick at. I assumed that it would be a tedious and difficult read so I ...             Phoenix and the Birds of Prey: Counterinsurgency and Counterterrorism in Vietnam Mark Moyar Bison Books, 2007 A critical text on the Phoenix Project I'm extremely glad to see that this important book has finally been republished and become available to a wider audience. I wrote my thesis in history on Phoenix, and Moyar's work was an invaluable resource, once I was finally able to get my hands on it. It is sadly ...             Counterinsurgency Warfare: Theory and Practice (PSI Classics of the Counterinsurgency Era) David Galula Praeger Security International Paperback, 2006 Essential This book should be on the required reading for any of the military that are in/going to Iraq and Afghanistan. Page 4 states the obvous, that only took us four years in Iraq to learn...the objective (center of gravity) is the population. The new counterinsugency ...             Tequila Junction: 4th-Generation Counterinsurgency H. John Poole Posterity Press, 2008 Parts One and Two of "Tequila Junction" detail a foreign power's hidden assault on the Americas. While the assault's objective is political, much of its support comes through local commodity trading (mostly in drugs). That makes it a well-veiled variant of 4th-Generation Warfare (that which is fought in the political, economic, psychological, and ...             Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam John A. Nagl University Of Chicago Press, 2005 Shows the pain of organizational culture As the war in Iraq slides into it's fifth year I am sure most Americans are perplexed on why things remain so screwed up over there. Why can't American's just handle it and come home. This book sort of explains the why. This book is excellent. It really defines what an ...             On Guerrilla Warfare Mao Tse-tung, Samuel B Griffith University of Illinois Press, 2000 A Profound Work Looking at the other reviews on this book, many complain that it is a simple, out-dated work, with few insights provided. I see this book as being written with the goal of a general educating his soldiers. Short this book creates the structure of how the general ...             The Savage Wars Of Peace: Small Wars And The Rise Of American Power Max Boot Basic Books, 2003 The perfect mix of analysis, narrative and good writing The more history I read, the more I admire historians. Writing good history is not easy. You can be overly academic and the book becomes dry and boring, or if one just strings together interesting stories the book lacks intellectual weight. The Savage Wars of ...             Militant Tricks: Battlefield Ruses of the Islamic Insurgent H. John Poole Posterity Press, 2005 Understanding OEF/OIF True Enemies This is the best book I have read so far on where and who the real enemy is and who is behind and against the U.S. supporting democracy and the liberation of the people of Iraq. Breaks down in detail who is Sunni and who is Shiite. How they work and how they are ...             Tactics of the Crescent Moon: Militant Muslim Combat Methods H. John Poole Posterity Press, 2004 A must read for those who leave the wire During seven months in Falluja in 2005 I spent approximately 150 days in the city. The history alone in this book showed us just how much we may have been underestimating our enemies, and that if they followed their classical influences they could have done much more ...             U.S. Army Counterinsurgency Handbook Department of Defense Skyhorse Publishing, 2007 Pick this up today! This book is from the Department of Defense, so you know it is the book to get on the subject. With the modern times calling for a need to use intelligence in wars, over brute force, this is a great guide to surveillance, ethics, interrogation, and loads of other ...             Modern Warfare: A French View of Counterinsurgency (PSI Classics of the Counterinsurgency Era) Roger Trinquier Praeger Security International Paperback, 2006 Excellent Book This book was written in 1964, distilling the author's decades of counterinsurgency experience in Indochina and Algeria. However, as I was reading it, I found that he could have been speaking about Iraq in present day. In reading this book, a reader can realize exactly ...             The Sling and the Stone: On War in the 21st Century USMC, Colonel Thomas X. Hammes Zenith Press, 2004 Thoughtful, neutral and critical of business as usual This book joins a number of others (Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife, The Utility of Force,Tactics of the Crescent Moon) that advocate a more carefully thought out, less technology-driven and hopefully more productive approach to fighting terrorism. And, make no ...             Insurgency and Counter-Insurgency in Iraq Ahmed S. Hashim Cornell University Press, 2006 Multifaceted violence in Iraq, actors, motives, and goals For anybody concerned about the continuing violence in Iraq and desiring a better in-depth understanding of the insurgency's actors, motives, and goals, will find a valuable resource in "Insurgency and Counterinsurgency". The reader will learn to understand how Iran, ...             Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone Rajiv Chandrasekaran Knopf, 2006 A damning indictment Since I lived for a year in Baghdad's Green Zone, I felt it was necessary for me to read what happened before I got there, under L. Paul Bremer, bureaucrat extraordinaire. That is why I recently found myself reading Imperial Life in the Emerald City, by Rajiv ...          products you might be interested in search for books 4th-generation, battlefield, counter-insurgency, counterinsurgency, counterterrorism, generation      toavi.com    web we recommend A damning indictment randomly chosen VHS: Tuesdays With Morrie