TY  - BOOK
AU  - SHAFER D Michael
TI  - Deadly paradigms: the failure of US counterinsurgency policy
SN  - 0718513118 (hbk.)
PY  - 1988///
CY  - Leicester
PB  - Leicester University Press
KW  - COUNTERINSURGENCY
KW  - INSURGENCY
KW  - UNITED STATES
KW  - FOREIGN POLICY
KW  - SECURITY POLICY
N2  - American policymakers have consistently and fundamentally misperceived the political context of revolutionary wars direct against American clients.  American attempts at countersurgery were based on faulty premises, these efforts have failed in virtually every instance.  American foreign policy must examine the cognitive processes of policymakers in addition to directing their attention to other patterns of explanation
ER  -