The Counterinsurgent Imagination
A New Intellectual History
Seiten
2023
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-22581-6 (ISBN)
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-22581-6 (ISBN)
This book shows counterinsurgencies are conservative worldmaking projects: attempts to reimagine the world in response to insurrection. MacKay traces the emergence of these ideas from early modernity, as they changed over successive conflicts and periods, focusing on military manuals as records of practice, varying with the status quo they defend.
Counterinsurgency, the violent suppression of armed insurrection, is among the dominant kinds of war in contemporary world politics. Often linked to protecting populations and reconstructing legitimate political orders, it has appeared in other times and places in very different forms – and has taken on a range of politics in doing so. How did it arrive at its present form, and what generated these others, along the way? Spanning several centuries and four detailed case studies, The Counterinsurgent Imagination unpacks and explores this intellectual history through counterinsurgency manuals. These military theoretical and instructional texts, and the practitioners who produced them, made counterinsurgency possible in practice. By interrogating these processes, this book explains how counter-insurrectionary war eventually took on its late twentieth and early twenty-first century forms. It shows how and why counterinsurgent ideas persist, despite recurring failures.
Counterinsurgency, the violent suppression of armed insurrection, is among the dominant kinds of war in contemporary world politics. Often linked to protecting populations and reconstructing legitimate political orders, it has appeared in other times and places in very different forms – and has taken on a range of politics in doing so. How did it arrive at its present form, and what generated these others, along the way? Spanning several centuries and four detailed case studies, The Counterinsurgent Imagination unpacks and explores this intellectual history through counterinsurgency manuals. These military theoretical and instructional texts, and the practitioners who produced them, made counterinsurgency possible in practice. By interrogating these processes, this book explains how counter-insurrectionary war eventually took on its late twentieth and early twenty-first century forms. It shows how and why counterinsurgent ideas persist, despite recurring failures.
Joseph MacKay is a Fellow in the Department of International Relations, Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, Australian National University. He works on historical international security, international hierarchies, and the history of international thought.
1. Introduction; 2. Counterrevolutionary war, early modernity to present; 3. Johann Ewald in America; 4. C. E. Callwell and the British empire; 5. David Galula in Algeria; 6. Field manual 3-24 and the Iraq war; 7. Conclusion; References.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 19.12.2022 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | LSE International Studies |
| Zusatzinfo | Worked examples or Exercises |
| Verlagsort | Cambridge |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 158 x 235 mm |
| Gewicht | 620 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-009-22581-2 / 1009225812 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-009-22581-6 / 9781009225816 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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