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Counterinsurgency: Exposing the Myths of the New Way of War by Douglas Porch (Paperback, 2013)

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Yet, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have revived a historical debate about the costs - monetary, political and moral - of operations designed to eliminate insurgents and build nations. Douglas Porch's sweeping history of counterinsurgency campaigns carried out by the three 'providential nations' of France, Britain and the United States, ranging from nineteenth-century colonial conquests to General Petraeus"Surge' in Iraq, challenges the contemporary mythologising of counterinsurgency as a humane way of war.