Deadly Paradigms: The Failure of U.S. Counterinsurgency Policy
ISBN: 9781400860586
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Princeton University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: United States -- Foreign relations -- 1945-; Counterinsurgency -- United States;

Michael Shafer argues that American policymakers have fundamentally misperceived the political context of revolutionary wars directed against American clients and that because American attempts at counterinsurgency were based on faulty premises, these efforts have failed in virtually every instance.

Originally published in 1988.

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