The U.S. Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual

When the U.S. military invaded Iraq, it lacked a common understanding of the problems inherent in counterinsurgency campaigns. It had neither studied them, nor developed doctrine and tactics to deal with them. It is fair to say that in 2003, most Army officers knew more about the U.S. Civil War than about counterinsurgency. This volume was written to fill that void. The result of unprecedented collaboration among top U.S. military experts, scholars, and practitioners in the field, the manual espouses an approach to combat that emphasizes constant adaptation and learning, the importance of decentralized decision making, the need to understand local politics and customs, and the key role of intelligence in winning the support of the population. The manual also emphasizes the paradoxical and often counterintuitive nature of counterinsurgency operations: sometimes the more you protect your forces, the less secure you are; sometimes the more force you use, the less effective it is; sometimes doing nothing is the best reaction. A new introduction by Sarah Sewall, director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, places the manual in critical and historical perspective, explaining the significance and potential impact of this revolutionary challenge to conventional U.S. military doctrine. An attempt by our military to redefine itself in the aftermath of 9/11 and the new world of international terrorism, "The U.S. Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual" will play a vital role in American military campaigns for years to come.

ISBN 0226841510   DEWEY edition DC22 ISBN13 9780226841519 (What's this?)   Pages 352 Publisher The University of Chicago Press   Volumes 1 Imprint University of Chicago Press   Weight (grammes) 638 Format Paperback   Published in Chicago, IL Publication date 07 Sep 2007   Height (mm) 230 Writer of foreword Lt. General David H. Petraeus, Lt. General James F. Amos, Lt. Colonel John A. Nagl   Width (mm) 149 Writer of introduction Sarah Sewall   Spine width (mm) 26 Library of Congress 2007006105   Academic level Professional / Scholarly DEWEY 355.0218

Ch. 1		Insurgency and counterinsurgency		1
Ch. 2		Unity of effort : integrating civilian and military activities		53
Ch. 3		Intelligence in Counterinsurgency		79
Ch. 4		Designing counterinsurgency campaigns and operations		137
Ch. 5		Executing counterinsurgency operations		151
Ch. 6		Developing host-nation security forces		199
Ch. 7		Leadership and ethics for counterinsurgency		237
Ch. 8		Sustainment		255
App. A		A guide for action		287

"This is the definitive guide as to how the U.S. military plans to address what is likely to be the dominant form of warfare over the next decade." - Andrew Krepinevich, author of The Army and Vietnam "Surely a manual that's on the bedside table of the president, vice president, secretary of defense, 21 of 25 members of the Senate Armed Services Committee and many others deserves a place at your bedside too." - Lt. General David H. Petraeus"

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