Challenges in Fighting a Global Insurgency

Abstract

Barno provides readers with a soldier's view of how America might successfully conduct a global counterinsurgency. He believes Americans are at risk of failing to understand the very nature of the war the nation is fighting--a war of intelligence and perceptions. America's military must seize ownership of war-winning as well as war-fighting if it is to accomplish its mission of defending the society it is pledged to protect.