Lexington Books
Pages: 234
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Trim: 6¼ x 9
978-1-4985-6411-3 • Hardback • January 2020 • $95.00 • (£65.00)
978-1-4985-6412-0 • eBook • January 2020 • $90.00 • (£60.00)
Miles Kitts is tutor of political science and international relations at the University of Queensland.
Chapter 1: The Utility of Force and the Definition of Terms
Chapter 2: Research Approach
Chapter 3: Strategic Assessment of British Counterinsurgency during the Malayan Emergency
Chapter 4: Strategic Assessment of American Counterinsurgency during the Vietnam War
Chapter 5: Strategic Assessment of Coalition Counterinsurgency during the Iraq War
"As counterinsurgency undergoes one of its periodic reassessments, it is vital to examine its core assumptions. In The Strategic Use of Force Miles Kitts does that for one of counterinsurgency's most important elements--the utility of force."
— Steven Metz, United States Army War College
“The Strategic Use of Force in Counterinsurgency offers a timely and important reassessment of the utility of force in counterinsurgency. Via a series of case studies Kitts re-evaluates the strategic use of force in asymmetric conflict.”
— David Martin Jones, University of Queensland
"Miles Kitts provides a thoughtful and provocative analysis of one of the key dilemmas in the conduct of modern counterinsurgency - how and to what extent do you apply force? His four imperatives of the Reflective Action approach merit consideration by practitioners and policy-makers alike."
— Conrad Crane, author of "Cassandra in Oz: Counterinsurgency and Future War"
“In focusing on the use of force Miles Kitts examines an often overlooked and under-studied element of counterinsurgency. In his detailed analysis of three case studies Kitts sheds light on how the use of force contributed to those campaigns and his book will be an invaluable resource to academics and practitioners.”
— David Strachan-Morris, University of Leicester