Book contents
- The Counterinsurgent Imagination
- LSE International Studies
- The Counterinsurgent Imagination
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Counterrevolutionary War, Early Modernity to Present
- 3 Johann Ewald in America
- 4 C. E. Callwell and the British Empire
- 5 David Galula in Algeria
- 6 Field Manual 3-24 and the Iraq War
- 7 Conclusion
- References
- Index
7 - Conclusion
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 January 2023
Book contents
- The Counterinsurgent Imagination
- LSE International Studies
- The Counterinsurgent Imagination
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Counterrevolutionary War, Early Modernity to Present
- 3 Johann Ewald in America
- 4 C. E. Callwell and the British Empire
- 5 David Galula in Algeria
- 6 Field Manual 3-24 and the Iraq War
- 7 Conclusion
- References
- Index
Summary
The concluding chapter reviews the book’s findings, then considers implications for ongoing conflicts globally. Counterinsurgency and cognate ideas, I argue, are likely to persist, whatever their past failures and ambivalent reception. I consider potential future developments, in a period of reactionary politics and “the empire come home.” Alternatives are nonetheless possible.
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- The Counterinsurgent ImaginationA New Intellectual History, pp. 230 - 247Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023