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Marc W.D. Tyrrell, Ph.D.
Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies,
Senior Research Fellow,
The Canadian Centre for Intelligence and Security Studies, NPSIA
Carleton University
http://marctyrrell.com/
Thanks very much for the help guys! Sorry that this reply has taken so long: handed the dissertation in 6 months ago and so i wasnt able to use some of the help that you have all given me. For issues of brevity i had to reduce the title of the piece to 'Does America’s subscription to the Big War paradigm damage it’s capacity to wage small wars?' The good news however is that i am now doing a masters, and am expanding upon this topic back to what it originally was, so i can utilize the info that was put forward
aaaaaanyway: replies.
Sigaba: I like what you said about the usefulness of investigating Upton, that is: possibly unuseful. I still want to (feel that i have to) discuss him as Cassidy and Weigley both give him quite a role in the formulation of american military culture. Any advice other than 'be careful!'?
I cannot find the books that you suggested in my university library, which is a result of its non-military specialisation. Will carry on looking because they sound really useful, especially Ingo Trauschweizer's book, The Cold War U.S. Army: Building Deterrence for Limited War.
Intel trooper: I like the title change! think that i will have to do that.
Steve blair: yeah will expand the date range from what intel trooper said. Given that I am looking at military (and political culture) it will need to be from the very start. Worried that my 20k word limit may be utterly breached by such an expansion, but will give it ago.
John Fishel- what is this Nagl-Gentile debate? I get who Nagl is and pretty much what his position is, but what of Gentile? Sounds like a perfect counter-point. though.
Oh yeah, and with you guys talking about transparency- if it wasn’t for this board I would have missed out on alot of useful stuff. and given that i am a total non-military type sat in a university with no military specialisation, i would say that it is somewhat easier to get access to this sort of information.
Thanks again!
A simple google search on Gian Gentile will give you plenty ot chew on.... Gian Lurks (not used in a pejorative sense) so he may contact you directly...
Best of luck...
Gian where have you been.... giving additional instruction to the women's basketball team???
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As opposed to 'Does America’s subscription to the Big War paradigm damage it’s capacity to wage small wars?'
you might try,
"Does the US Army's focus on regular threats damage it's ability to fight irregular threats." - Big War and Small War are both excellent, valid and coherent terms, but this subject does demand some semantic precision, which to date is sadly lacking both in military and academic writing on the subject.
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- The job of the British Army out here is to kill or capture Communist Terrorists in Malaya.
- If we can double the ratio of kills per contact, we will soon put an end to the shooting in Malaya.
Sir Gerald Templer, foreword to the "Conduct of Anti-Terrorist Operations in Malaya," 1958 Edition
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