Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-246) and index.
Contents
What is counterinsurgency mean to counter? The puzzle of insurgency -- Counterinsurgency and strategy: problems and paradoxes -- Counterinsurgency and the ideology of modernization -- The paradoxes of counterinsurgency and globalization -- The illusion of tradition: myths and paradoxes of British counterinsurgency -- The puzzle of counterinsurgency and escalation.