Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1   What Is Counterinsurgency Meant to Counter? The Puzzle of Insurgency

2   Counterinsurgency and Strategy: Problems and Paradoxes

3   Counterinsurgency and the Ideology of Modernization

4   The Paradoxes of Counterinsurgency and Globalization

5   The Illusion of Tradition: Myths and Paradoxes of British Counterinsurgency

6   The Puzzle of Counterinsurgency and Escalation

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index