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The U.S. Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual
Sarah Sewall
University Of Chicago Press
July 2007
On Sale: July 4, 2007
419 pages
ISBN: 0226841510
EAN: 9780226841519
Paperback
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Non-Fiction
When the U.S. military invaded Iraq, it lacked a common
understanding of the problems inherent in counterinsurgency
campaigns. It had neither studied them, nor developed
doctrine and tactics to deal with them. It is fair to say
that in 2003, most Army officers knew more about the U.S.
Civil War than they did about counterinsurgency. The U.S. Army / Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual
was written to fill that void. The result of unprecedented
collaboration among top U.S. military experts, scholars, and
practitioners in the field, the manual espouses an approach
to combat that emphasizes constant adaptation and learning,
the importance of decentralized decision-making, the need to
understand local politics and customs, and the key role of
intelligence in winning the support of the population. The
manual also emphasizes the paradoxical and often
counterintuitive nature of counterinsurgency operations:
sometimes the more you protect your forces, the less secure
you are; sometimes the more force you use, the less
effective it is; sometimes doing nothing is the best reaction. An new introduction by Sarah Sewall, director of the Carr
Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School
of Government, places the manual in critical and historical
perspective, explaining the significance and potential
impact of this revolutionary challenge to conventional U.S.
military doctrine. An attempt by our military to redefine itself in the
aftermath of 9/11 and the new world of international
terrorism, The U.S. Army / Marine Corps Counterinsurgency
Field Manual will play a vital role in American military
campaigns for years to come.
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