Title The insurgents : David Petraeus and the plot to change the American way of war / Fred Kaplan.

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New York : Simon & Schuster, 2013.

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Edition	First Simon and Schuster hardcover edition.
Description	x, 418 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages [369]-396) and index.
Contents	"What we need is an officer with three heads" -- "Another type of warfare" -- "Eating soup with a knife" -- Revolutions -- The insurgent at war -- The irregulars -- "Where's my counterinsurgency plan?" -- The Basin Harbor gang -- The directive -- The insurgent in the engine room of change -- The workshop at Tatooine -- Hearts & minds -- "Clear, hold, and build" -- "We are pulling in different directions" -- The field manual -- The surge -- Awakenings -- The insurgent in the Pentagon -- "It is folly" -- COIN versus CT -- "Storm clouds" -- "A new American way of war".
Summary	The inside story of the small group of soldier-scholars who changed the way the Pentagon does business and the American military fights wars, against fierce resistance from within their own ranks.
Subject	Counterinsurgency -- United States -- History.
	Petraeus, David Howell.
	Strategic culture -- United States -- History.
	United States -- Armed Forces -- Officers -- Education.
	Generals -- United States -- Biography.
	United States -- Military policy -- Planning.
	United States -- Military policy -- History.
	Counterinsurgency -- Iraq -- History -- 21st century.
	Counterinsurgency -- Afghanistan -- History -- 21st century.
	Iraq War, 2003-2011 -- Campaigns.
	Afghan War, 2001-2021 -- Campaigns.
Added Title	David Petraeus and the plot to change the American way of war
ISBN	9781451642636 hardback $28.00
	1451642636 hardback
	9781451642650 trade pbk.
	1451642652 trade pbk.

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