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Learning to Forget analyses the evolution of US counterinsurgency (COIN) doctrine over the last five decades. Beginning with an extensive section on the lessons of Vietnam, it traces the decline of COIN in the 1970s, then the rebirth of low intensity conflict through the Reagan years and the conflict in Bosnia, culminating in the campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan. It explains how the lessons of Vietnam led the Army to Iraq and the way in which their confronting and reimagining of these lessons offered them a way out of that war. In the process it provides an illustration of how military leaders make use of history and demonstrates the difficulties of drawing lessons from the past that can usefully be applied to contemporary circumstances.The book outlines how the construction of lessons is tied to the construction of historical memory and describes the interplay between the two processes--demonstrating how histories are constructed to serve the needs of the present. In so doing, it creates a new theory of doctrinal development.

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Book category Books in English Humanities History History: earliest times to present day

• Full title: Learning to Forget
• Author: David Fitzgerald
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 304
• EAN: 9780804785815
• ISBN: 0804785813
• ID: 02010297
• Publisher: Turpin DEDS Orphans
• Weight: 499 g
• Dimensions: 231 × 155 × 23 mm
• Date of publishing: 30. June 2013

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