DDonovan
07-27-2013, 07:13 PM
War of a Kind: Reflections on Counterinsurgency and those who do it by David Donovan has just been released as an ebook. Donovan is the author of the well-received Once a Warrior King, a book on his experiences in Vietnam in a counterinsurgency program. War of a Kind builds on that past bringing forward experiences and opinion from outside the normal channels. The ebook is available at the Nook (Amazon) and Kindle (Barnes & Noble) stores online and should be up on the iBook site shortly. A blurb follows:
"In the last decade the United States has been involved in major counterinsurgency efforts in both Iraq and Afghanistan. They have not gone well. WAR OF A KIND addresses key issues in counterinsurgency, but it does so without being a technical manual. Rather, it is a commentary based on personal counterinsurgency experiences from Vietnam with many years of thought applied afterward. Real-life vignettes from the author and others illustrate many of the issues discussed. WAR OF A KIND will be of interest to those who work in counterinsurgency and to the general reader who wants to understand a style of war that affects American foreign policy and defense planning."
"In the last decade the United States has been involved in major counterinsurgency efforts in both Iraq and Afghanistan. They have not gone well. WAR OF A KIND addresses key issues in counterinsurgency, but it does so without being a technical manual. Rather, it is a commentary based on personal counterinsurgency experiences from Vietnam with many years of thought applied afterward. Real-life vignettes from the author and others illustrate many of the issues discussed. WAR OF A KIND will be of interest to those who work in counterinsurgency and to the general reader who wants to understand a style of war that affects American foreign policy and defense planning."