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The first book of its kind, Hearts and Minds is a scathing response to the grand narrative of U.S. counterinsurgency, in which warfare is defined not by military might alone but by winning the "hearts and minds" of civilians. Dormant as a tactic since the days of the Vietnam War, in 2006 the U.S. Army drafted a new field manual heralding the resurrection of counterinsurgency as a primary military engagement strategy; counterinsurgency campaigns followed in Iraq and Afghanistan, despite the fact that counterinsurgency had utterly failed to account for the actual lived experiences of the people whose hearts and minds America had sought to win.
Drawing on leading thinkers in the field and using key examples from Malaya, the Philippines, Vietnam, El Salvador, Iraq, and Afghanistan, Hearts and Minds brings a long-overdue focus on the many civilians caught up in these conflicts. Both urgent and timely, this important book challenges the idea of a neat divide between insurgents and the populations from which they emergeâand should be required reading for anyone engaged in the most important contemporary debates over U.S. military policy.
Drawing on leading thinkers in the field and using key examples from Malaya, the Philippines, Vietnam, El Salvador, Iraq, and Afghanistan, Hearts and Minds brings a long-overdue focus on the many civilians caught up in these conflicts. Both urgent and timely, this important book challenges the idea of a neat divide between insurgents and the populations from which they emergeâand should be required reading for anyone engaged in the most important contemporary debates over U.S. military policy.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- About the Author
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. MalayaâBetween Two Terrors: âPeopleâs Historyâ and the Malayan Emergency
- 2. The PhilippinesââEngenderingâ Counterinsurgency: The Battle to Win the Hearts and Minds of Women During the Huk Rebellion in the Philippines
- 3. VietnamâUprooting the Revolution: Counterinsurgency in Vietnam
- 4. El SalvadorâThe Creation of the Internal Enemy: Pondering the Legacies of U.S. Anticommunism, Counterinsurgency, and Authoritarianism in El Salvador (1952â81)
- 5. Iraq, Part IâCounterinsurgency in Iraq
- 6. Iraq, Part IIâFebruary 2006âDecember 2012: New Allies, Old Tactics
- 7. Afghanistan, Part IââYou Have to Not Mind Killing Innocentsâ: American COIN Operations in Afghanistan and the Violence of Empire
- 8. Afghanistan, Part IIâCounterinsurgency in Afghanistan: Myth or Reality?
- Notes
- About the Contributors