Counterinsurgency

Since Vietnam, the U.S. military has avoided insurgencies in favor of “shock and awe” style campaigns. But developments in Iraq have forced military leaders to reconsider that approach. They are now developing a new counterinsurgency war doctrine that will teach soldiers to employ less force and more diplomacy. Host Frank Stasio discusses the new counterinsurgency doctrine with Conrad Crane, director of the U.S. Army Military History Institute; Colonel H.R. McMaster, Commander of the U.S. Army’s 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment; and Dick Kohn, chair of the Peace, War and Defense curriculum in the University of North Carolina’s History department. Listener call-in. (40:00)

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