The Coindinista's Counterfactual: The Nagl-Gentile Debate on Vietnam and Iraq
On December 15, 2006, the U.S. Army published the field manual (FM), FM 3-24, Counterinsurgency. Downloaded over two million times in the first two months of its release, the manual offered an attractive solution to the U.S. military's inability to quell the sectarian violence in Iraq. This thesis adds to the on-going criticism of the manual's use of Vietnam War revisionism, by suggesting that the writers used a counterfactual lens to justify their version of population-centric counterinsurgency doctrine.
Item Description
Name(s)
Author: Lee, Jeesue Jamie
Thesis advisor: Eudell, Demetrius Lynn
Thesis advisor: Rutland, Peter, 1955-
Date
April 15, 2017
Extent
88 pages
Language
eng
Genre
Physical Form
electronic
Discipline
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In Copyright – Non-Commercial Use Permitted
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Access restricted indefinitely. Please contact wesscholar@wesleyan.edu for more information.
Digital Collection
PID
ir:1982