{"product_id":"9781595588968","title":"Wrong Turn: America's Deadly Embrace of Counter-Insurgency","description":"\u003cb\u003eA searing indictment of US strategy in Afghanistan from a distinguished military leader and West Point military historian—“A remarkable book” (\u003ci\u003eNational Review\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e In 2008, Col. Gian Gentile exposed a growing rift among military intellectuals with an article titled “Misreading the Surge Threatens U.S. Army’s Conventional Capabilities,” that appeared in \u003ci\u003eWorld Politics Review\u003c\/i\u003e. While the years of US strategy in Afghanistan had been dominated by the doctrine of counterinsurgency (COIN), Gentile and a small group of dissident officers and defense analysts began to question the necessity and efficacy of COIN—essentially armed nation-building—in achieving the United States’ limited core policy objective in Afghanistan: the destruction of Al Qaeda.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Drawing both on the author’s experiences as a combat battalion commander in the Iraq War and his research into the application of counterinsurgency in a variety of historical contexts, \u003ci\u003eWrong Turn\u003c\/i\u003e is a brilliant summation of Gentile’s views of the failures of COIN, as well as a trenchant reevaluation of US operations in Afghanistan.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Gentile is convinced that Obama’s ‘surge’ in Afghanistan can’t work. . . . And, if Afghanistan doesn’t turn around soon, the Democrats . . . who have come to embrace the Petraeus-Nagl view of modern warfare . . . may find themselves wondering whether it’s time to go back to the drawing board.” —\u003ci\u003eThe New Republic\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"New Press, The","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47175516586224,"sku":"9781595588968","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781595588968_p0.jpg?v=1769901697","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781595588968","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}