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The commander's dilemma : violence and restraint in wartime / Amelia Hoover Green.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, (c)2018.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781501726484
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • JC328 .C666 2018
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Contents:
The commander's dilemma -- Setting the context : the history of El Salvador's civil war -- Comparing state and FMLN institutions and ideologies -- FMLN institutions and ideologies in depth -- Repertoires of violence in the Salvadoran civil war, 1980-1992 -- The commander's dilemma beyond El Salvador.
Subject: "To win wars, commanders have to create violence, but they also have to control it--and restraint comes from political education, not strategic thinking or harsh discipline"--
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Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Yale University, 2011.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction : repertoires and restraint -- The commander's dilemma -- Setting the context : the history of El Salvador's civil war -- Comparing state and FMLN institutions and ideologies -- FMLN institutions and ideologies in depth -- Repertoires of violence in the Salvadoran civil war, 1980-1992 -- The commander's dilemma beyond El Salvador.

"To win wars, commanders have to create violence, but they also have to control it--and restraint comes from political education, not strategic thinking or harsh discipline"--

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