Introduction; Celeste Ward Gventer, David Martin Jones and M.L.R Smith PART I: COUNTERINSURGENCY: HISTORY AND THEORY 1. Minting New COIN: Critiquing Counter-insurgency Theory; David Martin Jones, Celeste Ward Gventer and M.L.R Smith 2. COIN and the Chameleon: The Categorical Errors of Trying to Divide the Indivisible; M.L.R Smith 3. Our Own Worst Enemy: The Unspoken Paradox of Large-Scale Expeditionary COIN; Jeffrey Michaels 4. Government in a Box? Counter-insurgency, State Building, and the Technocratic Conceit; Colin Jackson 5. 'Our Ghettos, Too, Need a Lansdale': American Counter-insurgency Abroad and at Home in the Vietnam Era; William Rosenau 6. Bringing The Soil Back In: Control and Territoriality in Western and Non-Western COIN; James Worrall 7. Counter-insurgency and Violence Management; Paul Staniland 8. Mass, Methods, and Means: The Northern Ireland 'Model' of Counter-insurgency; John Bew 9. David Galula and the Revival of COIN in the US Military; Douglas Porch PART II: COUNTER-INSURGENCY IN IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN? 10.Testing the Surge: Why Did Violence Decline in Iraq in 2007?; Stephen Biddle, Jeffrey A. Friedman and Jacob N. Shapiro 11. After a Decade of Counter-insurgency, Eliminate Nation-building from US Military Manuals; Bing West 12. The Conceit of American Counter-insurgency; Gian Gentile 13. 'The Population is the Enemy': Control, Behaviour, and Counter-insurgency in Central Helmand Province, Afghanistan; Ryan Evans 14. The Reluctant Counter-insurgents: Britain's Absent Surge in Southern Iraq; Huw Bennett PART III: COUNTER-INSURGENCY AND FUTURE WARFARE 15. Questions about COIN after Iraq and Afghanistan; Joshua Rovner 16. The Military Utility & Interventions Post-Afghanistan: Reassessing Ends, Ways and Means; Matthew Ford 17. 'What Do We Do If We Are Never Going to Do This Again: Western Counter-insurgency Choices after Iraq and Afghanistan'; Paul Schulte