Research Catalog

Title

Learning to forget : US Army counterinsurgency doctrine and practice from Vietnam to Iraq / David Fitzgerald.

Author

Fitzgerald, David, 1984-

Publication

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2013.

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Details

Description

x, 285 pages; 24 cm

Summary

This book is a study of how the lessons of the Vietnam War influenced Army attitudes towards counterinsurgency in the post-Vietnam era, with a particular focus on the interplay between military doctrine and history. It demonstrates that Vietnam had a profound effect on Army attitudes towards counterinsurgency. These lessons, and the fortunes of counterinsurgency, were inextricably tied to the contemporary challenges the Army saw itself facing.

Uniform Title

University press scholarship online.

Subject

• United States. Army > History
• 1961-2011
• Counterinsurgency > United States > History
• Vietnam War, 1961-1975 > United States
• Vietnam War, 1961-1975 > Influence
• Iraq War, 2003-2011

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction : counterinsurgency and the uses of history -- The Army's counterinsurgency war in Vietnam -- "Out of the rice paddies" : the 1970s and the decline of counterinsurgency -- Low intensity conflict in the Reagan years -- Peacekeeping and operations other than war in the 1990s -- Mr. Rumsfeld's war : transformation, doctrine and planning for Iraq -- Counterinsurgency and "Vietnam" in Iraq 2003-2006 -- The return to counterinsurgency : FM 3-24 and the "surge" -- A never-ending war? : the renegotiation of "Vietnam" in Afghanistan.

ISBN

• 9780804785815 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0804785813 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2012043943

OCLC

• 815836009
• SCSB-12260925

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library