Celeste Ward Gventer
Biographic Data
| ID | 3086765 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Celeste Ward Gventer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Celeste Ward |
| FAMILY NAME | Gventer |
| SIGNATURE | GVENTER C W |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at Austin |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Counterinsurgency and its Critics
Additional informationNotes on contributorsCeleste Ward GventerCeleste Ward Gventer was the Political Advisor to the Multi-National Corps-Iraq Commander in 2006, is a former US Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, a current PhD candidate in History, and is co-editor of The New Counterinsurgency Era in Critical Perspective, with David Martin Jones and M. L. R. Smith (London: Palgrave Macmillan 2014)
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This article explores the historical reasoning behind counterinsurgency thinking, particularly as applied to Iraq, using Douglas Porch's book, Counterinsurgency: Exposing the Myths of the New Way of War as a reference point. It argues that the classic historical analogies of counterinsurgency theory were inapt in dealing with the conflict in Iraq, and that the historical reasoning behind counterinsurgency more generally deserves greater scrutiny.…
Deconstructing counter-insurgency
Observers have begun to scrutinize the prominence of counter-insurgency (COIN) in the military, security and political discourse of the major Western powers, questioning whether COIN's precepts account for its claimed successes and whether they offer valid policy prescriptions. The key research questions this study seeks to examine, however, are of a more theoretical nature: what is COIN exactly, what are its conceptual underpinnings and why has …
Counterinsurgency and its Critics
Additional informationNotes on contributorsCeleste Ward GventerCeleste Ward Gventer was the Political Advisor to the Multi-National Corps-Iraq Commander in 2006, is a former US Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, a current PhD candidate in History, and is co-editor of The New Counterinsurgency Era in Critical Perspective, with David Martin Jones and M. L. R. Smith (London: Palgrave Macmillan 2014)
Deconstructing counter-insurgency
Observers have begun to scrutinize the prominence of counter-insurgency (COIN) in the military, security and political discourse of the major Western powers, questioning whether COIN's precepts account for its claimed successes and whether they offer valid policy prescriptions. The key research questions this study seeks to examine, however, are of a more theoretical nature: what is COIN exactly, what are its conceptual underpinnings and why has …
Deconstructing counter-insurgency
Observers have begun to scrutinize the prominence of counter-insurgency (COIN) in the military, security and political discourse of the major Western powers, questioning whether COIN's precepts account for its claimed successes and whether they offer valid policy prescriptions. The key research questions this study seeks to examine, however, are of a more theoretical nature: what is COIN exactly, what are its conceptual underpinnings and why has …
Counterinsurgency and its Critics
Additional informationNotes on contributorsCeleste Ward GventerCeleste Ward Gventer was the Political Advisor to the Multi-National Corps-Iraq Commander in 2006, is a former US Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, a current PhD candidate in History, and is co-editor of The New Counterinsurgency Era in Critical Perspective, with David Martin Jones and M. L. R. Smith (London: Palgrave Macmillan 2014)
Keep the change
This article explores the historical reasoning behind counterinsurgency thinking, particularly as applied to Iraq, using Douglas Porch's book, Counterinsurgency: Exposing the Myths of the New Way of War as a reference point. It argues that the classic historical analogies of counterinsurgency theory were inapt in dealing with the conflict in Iraq, and that the historical reasoning behind counterinsurgency more generally deserves greater scrutiny.…
Law (3 works) · Military History and Strategy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Military, Security, and Education Studies (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Politics (2 works)