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Uncomfortable Wars Revisited
By John T. Fishel, Max G. Manwaring
Foreword and Afterword by Edwin G. Corr
Since the end of the Cold War, and especially since September 11, 2001, the United States has faced daunting challenges in the areas of foreign policy and national security. Threatened by failing states, insurgencies, civil wars, and terrorism, the nation has been compelled to re-evaluate its traditional responses to global conflict. In this timely book, John T. Fishel and Max G. Manwaring present a much-needed strategy for conducting unconventional warfare in an increasingly violent world.
In the early 1990s, Manwaring introduced a new paradigm for addressing low-intensity conflicts, or conflicts other than major wars. Termed the Manwaring Paradigm or SWORD (Small Wars Operations Research Directorate) model, it has been tested successfully by scholars and practitioners and refined in the wake of new and significant “uncomfortable wars” around the world, most notably the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq. Uncomfortable Wars Revisited broadens the definition of the original paradigm and applies it to specific confrontations.
John T. Fishel is Professor of National Security Policy and Research Director at the Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies of the National Defense University. Max G. Manwaring is Professor of Military Strategy at the U.S. Army War College, where he holds the General Douglas MacArthur Chair of Research. Both Fishel and Manwaring have written or edited numerous books and articles on political-military affairs, military operations, and global and regional security concerns. Edwin G. Corr, former United States Ambassador to Peru, Bolivia, and El Salvador, is Associate Director of the International Programs Center at the University of Oklahoma.
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