Counterinsurgency exposing the myths of the new way of war - Porch, Douglas (Cambridge, [England] Cambridge University Press, 2013)
A "happy combination of clemency with firmness": the small wars prologue -- The road from Sedan -- The paroxysms of imperial might in the shadow of the Great war -- From Tipperary to Tel Aviv: British counterinsurgency in the World War II era -- From small wars to la guerre subversive: the radicalization and collapse of French counterinsurgency -- Vietnam, counterinsurgency, and the American way of war -- "A conspiracy of heroes": revolution and counterinsurgency in Latin America -- Building the "most successful counterinsurgency school": COIN as the British way of war -- Britain's Thirty Years' War in Northern Ireland -- Vietnam with a happy ending: Iraq and "the surge" -- Conclusion.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [400]-416) and index.
Keywords: Counterinsurgency -- Case studies; Low-intensity conflicts (Military science) -- Case studies; Counterinsurgency -- History