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India and Counterinsurgency: Lessons Learned

机译：印度与平叛：吸取的教训

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Counterinsurgency (COIN) literature focusing on the recent experiences of the US and its Western allies in Afghanistan and Iraq has overlooked the experiences of other, particularly, non-Western democracies that have faced and defeated insurgencies. Surprisingly little attention has been paid to India's experiences by Western COIN thinkers, who continue to draw lessons from increasingly dated examples as the colonial counterinsurgencies in British Malaya and French Algeria. India is a growing regional power and a democracy that has fought resiliently against both internal and external insurgencies in over a dozen COIN campaigns since its independence. Indiana University Bloomington professors Sumit Ganguly and David Fidler recognise the richness of this Indian experience, bringing it to the attention of Western COIN scholars and policymakers with the publication of their edited volume, India and Counterinsurgency: Lessons Learned. While the gaping hole in the literature remains too large to be filled by a 230-page volume, the editors duly acknowledge this in their introduction, presenting it as an introductory basis for further exchanges between Indian and Western COIN thinkers. Considering the rocky Cold War relationship, the US had with the non-aligned power and currently restrained due to its strategic ties with Pakistan, these exchanges have been fairly limited. This book represents a positive, albeit ambitious first step. This is made through its collection of contributors, drawing upon a range of veteran Indian scholar-practitioners from across the civil-military spectrum and following up their experiences with chapters by US COIN analysts in order to draw commonalities and nuances between the 'lessons learned' by the two. With this aim in mind, the similarities drawn, focused on somewhat excessively at times, formulate the basis of their main argument. Namely, that India's experience, having faced an almost constant learning and re-learning process independent of the United States, 'validates much of contemporary US and Western thinking on COIN' (p.4). The importance of concepts such as population-centrism, minimum force as part of a unified political effort, the rule of law and the lead role of police, governance and civic action are emphasised as key lessons for Indian COIN throughout the book (p.227), producing almost identical recommendations to the likes of Sir Robert Thompson and David Kilcullen.
机译：围绕美国及其在阿富汗和伊拉克的西方盟友最近的经历的平叛文学（COIN）忽略了其他面对，并击败了叛乱的非民主国家的经历，尤其是非西方民主国家。令人惊讶的是，西方COIN思想家很少关注印度的经历，他们继续从日渐成熟的例子中汲取教训，例如英属马来亚和法国阿尔及利亚的殖民反叛活动。自独立以来，印度是一个成长中的区域大国和民主国家，在十多个COIN运动中与内部和外部叛乱进行了有力的斗争。印第安纳大学布卢明顿分校的教授Sumit Ganguly和David Fidler认识到这种印度经验的丰富性，并在其编辑本《印度与反叛乱：经验教训》的出版后，引起了西方钱币学者和决策者的注意。尽管文献中的漏洞仍然太大，无法被230页的卷填补，但编辑们在引言中充分承认了这一点，并将其作为印度和西方COIN思想家之间进一步交流的入门基础。考虑到坎Cold的冷战关系，美国拥有不结盟国家的权力，由于与巴基斯坦的战略关系目前受到限制，这些交往相当有限。这本书代表着积极而积极的第一步。这是通过其贡献者的收藏来实现的，它吸收了来自不同军民阶层的一批资深印度学者从业人员，并跟进了美国COIN分析人员在各章中的经验，以吸取“经验教训”之间的共同点和细微差别。由两个。考虑到这一目标，所得出的相似之处有时过分侧重，为它们的主要论点奠定了基础。就是说，印度的经验几乎独立于美国，面临着几乎不断的学习和再学习过程，“证实了当代美国和西方对COIN的许多思考”（第4页）。在整本书中，强调了诸如以人口为中心，作为统一政治努力的一部分的最低限度的武力，法治和警察，治理和公民行动的领导角色等概念的重要性，这是印度COIN的主要课程（第227页） ），并向罗伯特·汤普森爵士和戴维·基尔库伦爵士提出了几乎相同的建议。

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    《Civil wars》 |2014年第3期|369-372|共4页
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    ALEX WATERMAN;

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    University of Leeds;

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