Download or read book Puncturing the Counterinsurgency Myth written by Andrew Mumford and published by Strategic Studies Institute U. S. Army War College. This book was released on 2011 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph holds that an aura of mythology has surrounded conventional academic and military perceptions of British performance in the realm of irregular warfare. It identifies 10 myths regarding British counterinsurgency performance and seeks to puncture them by critically assessing the efficacy of the British way of counterinsurgency from the much-vaunted, yet over-hyped, Malayan Emergency to the withdrawal of combat troops from Iraq in 2009. It challenges perceptions of the British military as an effective learning institution when it comes to irregular warfare and critically assesses traditional British counterinsurgency strategic maxims regarding hearts and minds and minimum force.