Considers the crucial question of how armies adapt to changing circumstances during the course of conflicts for which they are initially unprepared. This book is a timely examination of the lessons of previous counterinsurgency campaigns that will be hailed by both military leaders and interested civilians.
This volume in the Praeger Security International (PSI) series Classics of the Counterinsurgency Era defines the laws of insurgency and outlines the strategy and tactics to combat such threats. Drawn from the observations of a French officer, David Galula, who witnessed guerrilla warfare on three continents, the book remains relevant today as American policymakers, military analysts, and members of the public look to the counterinsurgency era of the 1960s for lessons to apply to the current situation in Iraq and Afghanistan. With a new foreword by John A. Nagl, author of Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam (Praeger, 2002).
An essential, illustrated primer on what makes society tick .
Gesellschaft? Was soll das sein? Wie funktioniert sie? Welche Rolle spielen Einzelne und Gruppen dabei? Soziologie interessiert sich dafür, wie Menschen die Gesellschaft formen, in der sie leben. Dieser Band der Infocomics erklärt die Arbeit der Soziologen zur Industrialisierung, Aufklärung, demokratischen Revolution bis hin zu Globalisierung und Neoliberalismus. Dabei werden Akteure, Denkrichtungen und Teilgebiete vorgestellt: Stadtsoziologie, Machttheorien, Wissenssoziologie, ethnische und sexuelle Identität und vieles mehr. All das wird gewürzt durch die scharfe Feder des Illustrators Piero.