Understanding Counterinsurgency

This textbook offers an accessible introduction to counterinsurgency operations, a key aspect of modern warfare. Featuring essays by some of the world's leading experts on unconventional conflict, both scholars and practitioners, the book discusses how modern regular armed forces react, and should react, to irregular warfare. The volume is divided into three main sections: Doctrinal Origins: analysing the intellectual and historical roots of modern Western theory and practice Operational Aspects: examining the specific role of various military services in counterinsurgency, but also special forces, intelligence, and local security forces Challenges: looking at wider issues, such as governance, culture, ethics, civil-military cooperation, information operations, and time. Understanding Counterinsurgency is the first comprehensive textbook on counterinsurgency, and will be essential reading for all students of small wars, counterinsurgency and counterterrorism, strategic studies and security studies, both in graduate and undergraduate courses as well as in professional military schools.

Thomas Rid is a visiting scholar at the Shalem Center in Jerusalem and a non-resident fellow at the Center for Transatlantic Relations in the School for Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University. Thomas Keaney, Colonel, USAF (Ret.), is Associate Director of Strategic Studies at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies.

This book is about counterinsurgency - how modern regular armed forces react, and should react, to irregular warfare. What are the doctrinal origins of counterinsurgency warfare? What are today's main operational issues? What are the future strategic challenges? The market has produced many books on insurgency and some on aspects of counterinsurgency. Yet the book fills three gaps: First, there is no book that focuses principally on counter-insurgency and specifically discusses all the aspects of it in a complete, systematic and critical fashion (official military publications lack both a critical view and usually are focused on one particular army and its own historical experiences). Second, there is no book that captures today's rather productive debate on small wars in such a comprehensive way. Third, so far the European perspective in the small wars debate has been neglected. This book, with authors from Britain, France and Germany, as well as the USA, attempts to change that. In mid-2009 the next U.S. administration will have arrived firmly in office and most likely will refocus its attention on Iraq; it will also work with European nations to reevaluate NATO operations in Afghanistan. A book that looks at the 21st century's dominant way of war in an encompassing way written by some of America's and Europe's best experts will be in demand. This book will be of great interest to students of counterinsurgency, small wars, strategic studies and international security.

An engaging workbook for children who are using the Big Cat series. These workbooks accompany the popular Collins Big Cat series. They enable children to practise and reinforce the target vocabulary and language structures presented in each corresponding Collins Big Cat reader through enjoyable puzzles, games and activities, as well as through more traditional comprehension exercises.Tracing, copying and eventually free-writing tasks build and develop children's writing skills as they progress through the Bands, Pink A to Lime. A fun quiz to test understanding, and a reward certificate at the back of each Workbook, enable children to feel a sense of progress as they learn to read more confidently in English.

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