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Author Hittle, J. B. E

Title Michael Collins and the Anglo-Irish War : Britain's counterinsurgency failure / J.B.E. Hittle
Edition 1st ed
Published Washington, D.C. : Potomac Books, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xxv, 297 pages) : illustrations
Contents 1 England's Troubled Colony 1 -- 2 Colonial Security Policy 10 -- 3 The Irish Nationalist 33 -- 4 The Phoenix 47 -- 5 Revolution in Earnest 60 -- 6 In the Shadow of Gunmen 72 -- 7 Spies at the Window 91 -- 8 Unification by Force 113 -- 9 Within the Gates 141 -- 10 Endgame 185 -- 11 Conclusion 216
Summary As leader of the Irish Republican Brotherhood and then the Irish Republican Army (IRA), Michael Collins developed a bold, new strategy to use against the British administration of Ireland in the early twentieth century. His goal was to attack its well-established system of spies and informers, wear down British forces with a sustained guerrilla campaign, and force a political settlement that would lead to a free Irish Republic. This book reveals that the success of the Irish insurgency was not just a measure of Collins's revolutionary genius, as has often been claimed. British miscalculations, overconfidence, and a failure to mount a sustained professional intelligence effort to neutralize the IRA contributed to Britain's defeat. The author takes a fresh approach to the subject, presenting it as a case study in intelligence management under conditions of a broader counterinsurgency campaign. The lessons learned from this disastrous episode have stark relevance for contemporary national security managers and warfighters currently engaged in the war on terrorism. --from book description, Amazon.com
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-288) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Collins, Michael, 1890-1922 -- Military leadership
SUBJECT Collins, Michael, 1890-1922 -- Military leadership
Collins, Michael, 1890-1922 fast
Collins, Michael 1890-1922 gnd
Collins, Michael. idszbz
Subject Irish Republican Army -- History
Great Britain. Army -- History -- 20th century
SUBJECT Great Britain. Army fast
Irish Republican Army fast
Subject Revolutionaries -- Ireland -- Biography
Insurgency -- Ireland -- History -- 20th century
Counterinsurgency -- Ireland -- History -- 20th century
HISTORY -- Europe -- Ireland.
Counterinsurgency
Insurgency
Command of troops
Revolutionaries
Aufstand.
SUBJECT Ireland -- History -- War of Independence, 1919-1921. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002007186
Subject Ireland
Irland.
Irland -- Aufstand (1920)
Genre/Form collective biographies.
Biographies
History
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781612341286
1612341284