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Counterinsurgency --- Low-intensity conflicts (Military science) --- History. --- United States. --- United States --- History, Military.

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"Keith B. Bickel challenges a host of military and strategic theories that treat particular bureaucratic structures, large organizations, and elites as the progenitors of doctrine. This timely study of how the military draws lessons from interventions focuses on the overlooked role that mid-level combat officers play in creating military doctrine. Mars Learning closely evaluates Marine civil and military pacification operations in Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and Nicaragua, and illuminates the debates surrounding the development of Marine Corps' small wars doctrine between 1915 and 1940. The result is compelling evidence of how field experience obtained before 1940 played a role in shaping the Marine Corps' Small Wars Manual and elements of doctrine that exist today. How the Marines organized lessons at that time provides important insights into how doctrine is likely to be generated today in response to post-Cold War interventions around the globe."--Provided by publisher.

Counterinsurgency. --- Peacekeeping forces, American. --- Peacekeeping forces --- Low-intensity conflicts (Military science) --- United States. --- History --- Haiti --- Dominican Republic --- Nicaragua

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Warfare in the twenty-first century goes well beyond conventional armies and nation-states. In a world of diffuse conflicts taking place across sprawling cities, war has become fragmented and uneven to match its settings. Yet the analysis of failed states, civil war, and state building rarely considers the city, rather than the country, as the terrain of battle.In Cities at War, Mary Kaldor and Saskia Sassen assemble an international team of scholars to examine cities as sites of contemporary warfare and insecurity. Reflecting Kaldor’s expertise on security cultures and Sassen’s perspective on cities and their geographies, they develop new insight into how cities and their residents encounter instability and conflict, as well as the ways in which urban forms provide possibilities for countering violence. Through a series of case studies of cities including Baghdad, Bogotá, Ciudad Juarez, Kabul, and Karachi, the book reveals the unequal distribution of insecurity as well as how urban capabilities might offer resistance and hope. Through analyses of how contemporary forms of identity, inequality, and segregation interact with the built environment, Cities at War explains why and how political violence has become increasingly urbanized. It also points toward the capacity of the city to shape a different kind of urban subjectivity that can serve as a foundation for a more peaceful and equitable future.

Urban warfare --- Internal security --- Metropolitan areas --- Urban violence --- Political violence --- Low-intensity conflicts (Military science) --- Human security --- Sociology, Urban. --- Strategic aspects.

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Que le passé se prête à des usages politiques, toute l’histoire de l’historiographie l’atteste. D’où vient alors que le souci d’une manipulation du passé se fasse toujours plus insistant, comme en témoignent la récente querelle des historiens allemands sur la signification du nazisme ou celle, en cours, sur le communisme ? Autour de quelques dossiers actuels, cet ouvrage s’attache à réfléchir sur notre présent historiographique et ses multiples usages politiques.

History as a science --- Political science --- Historiography --- Science politique --- Historiographie --- History --- Histoire --- World politics y 1989 --- -History --- Ethnicity --- Low-intensity conflicts (Military science) --- Concept --- --Historiographie --- --Historien --- --Manipulation --- --Histoire --- --Philosophie --- --Ethnicité --- --Philosophy --- Political aspects --- Low intensity conflicts (Military science) --- World politics --- Conflicts, Low-intensity (Military science) --- Low-intensity operations (Military science) --- Low-level conflicts (Military science) --- Operations, Low-intensity (Military science) --- Small wars --- Wars, Small --- Limited war --- History, Modern --- Philosophy --- Philosophy. --- Political aspects. --- -History - Philosophy --- Ethnicity - Political aspects --- Historien --- Manipulation --- Philosophie --- Ethnicité --- historiographie --- histoire --- histoire politique --- idéologie --- HISTORIOGRAPHIE --- HISTOIRE --- ASPECTS POLITIQUES --- EPISTEMOLOGIE

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Carl von Clausewitz has long been interpreted as the paradigmatic thinker of major interstate war. This book challenges this assumption by showing that Clausewitz was an ardent analyst of small war and integrated many aspects of his early writings on partisan warfare and people's war into his magnum opus, 'On War.' It reconstructs Clausewitz's intellectual development by placing it in the context of his engagement with the political and philosophical currents of his own times - German Idealism, Romanticism, and Humanism. The central question that Clausewitz and his contemporaries faced was how to defend Prussia and Europe against Napoleon's expansionist strategy.

Low-intensity conflicts (Military science) --- Clausewitz, Carl von, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Conflicts, Low-intensity (Military science) --- Low-intensity operations (Military science) --- Low-level conflicts (Military science) --- Operations, Low-intensity (Military science) --- Small wars --- Wars, Small --- Limited war --- Klausewitz, Karl von, --- Klauzevit︠s︡, --- Von Clausewitz, Carl, --- Clausewitz, Karl von, --- Ḳlaʼuzvits, Ḳarl fun, --- קלאוזביץ --- Clausewitz, Carl Philipp Gottfried von,