New challenges and old concepts : understanding 21st century insurgency /

METZ Steven

New challenges and old concepts : understanding 21st century insurgency / Steven Metz. - 2011

Originally published in the Winter 2007-08 issue of Parameters. Discusses what the United States should be doing under the label "counterinsurgency". Argues that models indicated by Galula and Nagl may not be relevant outside colonial experience, and concludes the USA should recognise there is no single answer, that there are different insurgency environments, that if and when the U.S. does get involved it does not do so alone, and acknowledge that successful counterinsurgency will require involvement of multiple government agencies as well as the military.


COUNTERINSURGENCY--UNITED STATES