Bullets Not Ballots Success in Counterinsurgency Warfare

Bullets Not Ballots: Success in Counterinsurgency Warfare (Cornell Studies in Security Affairs) by Jacqueline L. Hazelton
English | May 15, 2021 | ISBN: 1501754785 | EPUB | 220 pages | 2.7 MB
In Bullets Not Ballots, Jacqueline L. Hazelton challenges the claim that winning "hearts and minds" is critical to successful counterinsurgency campaigns. Good governance, this conventional wisdom holds, gains the besieged government popular support, denies support to the insurgency, and makes military victory possible. Hazelton argues that major counterinsurgent successes since World War II have resulted not through democratic reforms but rather through the use of military force against civilians and the co-optation of rival elites.