Michael Collins and the Anglo-Irish War: Britain's counterinsurgency failure
As leader of the Irish Republican Brotherhood and then the Irish Republican Army (IRA), Michael Collins developed a bold, new strategy to use against the British administration of Ireland in the early twentieth century. His goal was to attack its well-established system of spies and informers, wear down British forces with a sustained guerrilla campaign, and force a political settlement that would lead to a free Irish Republic. This book reveals that the success of the Irish insurgency was not …
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- Full title :Michael Collins and the Anglo-Irish War : Britain's counterinsurgency failure / J.B.E. Hittle.
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As leader of the Irish Republican Brotherhood and then the Irish Republican Army (IRA), Michael Collins developed a bold, new strategy to use against the British administration of Ireland in the early twentieth century. His goal was to attack its well-established system of spies and informers, wear down British forces with a sustained guerrilla campaign, and force a political settlement that would lead to a free Irish Republic. This book reveals that the success of the Irish insurgency was not just a measure of Collins's revolutionary genius, as has often been claimed. British miscalculations, overconfidence, and a failure to mount a sustained professional intelligence effort to neutralize the IRA contributed to Britain's defeat. The author takes a fresh approach to the subject, presenting it as a case study in intelligence management under conditions of a broader counterinsurgency campaign. The lessons learned from this disastrous episode have stark relevance for contemporary national security managers and warfighters currently engaged in the war on terrorism. --from book description, Amazon.com.
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- Publication Date:©2011.
- Edition:1st ed
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Potomac Books
- Place of Publication:Washington, D.C
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2011.
The Physical Object
- Description:xxv, 297 pages : : illustrations ; : 24 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781597975353, 1597975354, 9781612341286, 1612341284
- oclc:ocn728102138
- LC Classification:DA965.C6
- Dewey Decimal:941.5082/1
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