Jungle of Snakes A Century of Counterinsurgency Warfare from the Philippines to Iraq

by Arnold, James R.

• ISBN13: 9781608190942
• ISBN10: 1608190943
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-07-06
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Press

Summary

The end of the Cold War Promised a New Era of Peace. Instead, violence has proliferated across the globe-not as clashes between massed armies, but in bitter local conflicts marked by terrorism and guerrilla tactics. Former CIA director James Woolsey said, "It is as if we were struggling with a large dragon for forty-five years, killed it, and then found ourselves in a jungle full of poisonous snakes."

Author Biography

James R. Arnold is the author of more than twenty books, including The First Domino: Eisenhower, the Military, and America’s Intervention in Vietnam; Presidents Under Fire: Commanders in Chief in Victory and Defeat; Jeff Davis’s Own: Cavalry, Comanches, and the Battle for the Texas Frontier; and Crisis in the Snows: Russia Confronts Napoleon, the Eylau Campaign 1806–1807. He lives on a farm near Lexington, Virginia.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
The Philippine Insurrection
An American Victory Yields a Guerrilla War	p. 11
Chastising the Insurrectos	p. 26
The War Is Won Again	p. 36
The Policy of Destruction	p. 50
Why the Americans Won	p. 63
The War in Algeria
Terror on All Saints' Day	p. 75
Terror Without Limits	p. 86
The Question of Morality	p. 97
The Enclosed Hunting Preserve	p. 110
The Sense of Betrayal	p. 120
The Malayan Emergency
Crisis in Malaya	p. 133
Personality and Vision	p. 142
A Modern Cromwell	p. 155
Victory in Malaya	p. 167
The Vietnam War
In Search of a New Enemy	p. 183
Pacification, Marine Corps Style	p. 195
Progress and Setback	p. 203
The Army's Other War	p. 217
Lessons from a Lost War	p. 230
Conclusion: Reflections on a War Without End	p. 237
Afterword	p. 255
Acknowledgments	p. 259
Notes	p. 261
Bibliography	p. 279
Index	p. 289
Maps
Capture of Manila, August 13, 1898	p. 13
Philippines	p. 18
Luzon Military Departments	p. 37
Philippines Showing Batangas and Balangiga	p. 51
Algeria Showing Aurès Massif and Kabylie	p. 76
Algeria Showing Philippeville	p. 87
The Challe Offensive, 1959-1960	p. 112
The Federation of Malaya, 1948	p. 169
South Vietnam Showing the Central Highlands	p. 192
South Vietnam Showing Corps Boundaries	p. 201
South Vietnam Showing Hau Nghia	p. 219
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