The Insurgents: David Petraeus and the Plot to Change the American Way of War
A Biography, History, North American Hi... book. Fred Kaplans The Insurgents: David Petraeus and the Plot to Change the American Way of...
A finalist for the Pulitzer PrizeThe Insurgents is the inside story of the small group of soldier-scholars, led by General David Petraeus, who plotted to revolutionize one of the largest, oldest, and most hidebound institutions—the United States military. Their aim was to build a new Army that could fight the new kind of war in the post–Cold War age: not massive wars on vast battlefields, but “small wars” in cities and villages, against insurgents and terrorists. These would be wars not only of fighting but of “nation building,” often not of necessity but of choice.Based on secret documents, private emails, and interviews with more than one hundred key characters, including Petraeus, the tale unfolds against the backdrop of the wars against insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan. But the main insurgency is the one mounted at home by ambitious, self-consciously intellectual...
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This book is certainly very well sourced and researched. I doubt you could find a better summary regarding the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and their places in American military history. The author (rightly) points out in the final chapter that for all the effort to sell and implement counterinsurgency practices in the Army, not only... They called themselves social scientists, they weremore like politicians. The Insurgents tells of a small group of army officers, most notably General David Petraeus, who plotted to change the U.S. military, the least changeable organization of government. They aimed to create an army that was able to fight in the modern era, small... Fred Kaplans The Insurgents: David Petraeus and the Plot to Change the American Way of War is an interesting story of how the theory of counterinsurgency was brought into practice in the American military play book. The cover fashions Petraeus as the insurgent in the Army hierarchy and the Pentagon who works to change the practice of...
