Low Intensity Warfare, Counterinsurgency, proinsurgency and antiterrorism in the eighties

In this book, the author analyses the emergence of the doctrine of Low Intensity Conflict (that includes peace operations), linking it to the bureaucratic struggles between different security agencies and explaining how these struggles have participated to the definition of the specific construction of threats characteristic of this doctrine. One of the interesting points of this book is that it insists on how old practices and old concepts (counter-insurgency...) are relabelled and presented as radically new.

KLARE (Michael T.), KORNBLUH (Peter) (eds), Low Intensity Warfare, Counterinsurgency, proinsurgency and antiterrorism in the eighties,New York, Pantheon Books, 1988