- Bib ID:
- 6484093
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Kaplan, Fred M, author
- Edition:
- First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
- Description:
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- New York : Simon & Schuster, 2013
- x, 418 pages ; 25 cm
- ISBN:
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- 9781451642636
- 1451642636
- 9781451642650
- 1451642652
- Invalid ISBN:
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- Summary:
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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.
- Full contents:
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- "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
- 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 vs. CT
- "Storm clouds"
- "A new American way of war".
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [369]-396) and index.
- Subject:
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- Also Titled:
- David Petraeus and the plot to change the American way of war
- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
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