A Question of Command: Counterinsurgency from the Civil War to Iraq by Mark Moyar (Hardback, 2009)

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According to the prevailing view of counterinsurgency, the key to defeating insurgents is selecting methods that will win the people's hearts and minds. The hearts-and-minds theory permeates t only most counterinsurgency books of the twenty-first century but the U.S. Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual, the U.S. military's foremost text on counterinsurgency. Mark Moyar assails this conventional wisdom, asserting that the key to counterinsurgency is selecting commanders who have superior leadership abilities. Whereas the hearts-and-minds school recommends allocating much labor and treasure to ecomic, social, and political reforms, Moyar advocates concentrating resources on security, civil administration, and leadership development. Moyar presents a wide-ranging history of counterinsurgency, from the Civil War and Reconstruction to Afghanistan and Iraq, that draws on the historical record and interviews with hundreds of counterinsurgency veterans, including top leaders in today's armed forces. Through a series of case studies, Moyar identifies the ten critical attributes of counterinsurgency leadership and reveals why these attributes have been much more prevalent in some organizations than others. He explains how the U.S. military and America's allies in Afghanistan and Iraq should revamp their personnel systems in order to elevate more individuals with those attributes. A Question of Command will reshape the study and practice of counterinsurgency warfare. With counterinsurgency w one of the most pressing issues facing the United States, this book is a must-read for policymakers, military officers, and citizens.
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Mark Moyar is director of research at Orbis Operations and the author of Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1954-1965 and Phoenix and the Birds of Prey: Counterinsurgency and Counterterrorism in Vietnam.

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Author(s)
Mark Moyar
Publisher
Yale University Press
Date of Publication
16/10/2009
Language
English
Format
Hardback
ISBN-10
0300152760
ISBN-13
9780300152760
Subject
Military History
Series Title
Yale Library of Military History

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Place of Publication
New Haven
Country of Publication
United States
Imprint
Yale University Press
Content Note
20 b-w illus. + 7 maps

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Weight
703 g
Width
155 mm
Height
234 mm
Spine
26 mm

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Foreword by
Donald M. Kagan,Frederick Kagan

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