Deadly paradigms: the failure of US counterinsurgency policy

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1988Description: 331pISBN:
  • 0718513118 (hbk.)
Subject(s): Summary: 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.
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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.

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