An American Strategy for Third World Insurgencies

Publication Date: March 1991

Publisher: Heritage Foundation (Washington, D.C.)

Author(s): David A. Silverstein

Research Area: Military and defense

Keywords: Latin American

Type: Report

Coverage: United States

Abstract:

The great majority of future threats to American security are likely to come from the Third World and they are likely to come as a less conventional military threat than that posed by Saddam Hussein. The U.S. has failed to address these threats adequately, particularly those posed by anti-Western insurgency movements.This failure stems from a lack of coordination in U.S. efforts, and from a lack of attention to the most basic political, economic, social, and ideological issues that fuel insurgencies.