Ep 035 "Review and Discussion: Counterinsurgency: Exposing the Myths of the New Way of War by Douglas Porch"
Everyone and everything has an origin story, while I had a sneaking suspicion early on in my modest career in special operations and irregular warfare (IW) that something was fundamentally wrong with the western way of war in these endeavors, it was Douglas Porch who probably set my course straight. In this book, he makes a compelling historical and logical case for why the IW efforts planet-wide have not only been a failure but ones that repeat themselves again and again.
References:
Douglas Porch Counterinsurgency: Exposing the Myths of the New Way of War
Nathaniel Moir Number One Realist: Bernard Fall and Vietnamese Revolutionary Warfare
Martin Windrow The Last Valley: Dien Bien Phu and the French Defeat in Vietnam
Ted Morgan Valley of Death: The Tragedy at Dien Bien Phu That Led America into the Vietnam War
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