Low-Intensity Conflict in American History

• Author(s): Claude C. Sturgill,
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Pages: 160
• ISBN_10: 0275939871
  ISBN_13: 9780275939878
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / Military / General ,

Description:... This book is both a practical guide and an introduction to low-intensity conflict. In addition, it serves as a history of this type of conflict in the United States. A part of normal government operations in the U.S. from 1940 to the present, low-intensity conflict's antecedants can be traced back to the beginning of the republic. Sturgill discusses topics such as: insurgency and counterinsurgency, terrorism and counterterrorism, and military intervention.