Todd Greentree, Crossroads of Intervention: Insurgency and Counterinsurgency Lessons from Central America

摘要

In this concise volume, Todd Greentree, a former US foreign service officer who served in Central America during the civil conflicts of the 1980s, explores the lessons that those conflicts hold for understanding the dynamics of 'small wars' and US intervention. In less than 200 pages, Greentree does a remarkable job of covering the basic dynamics of the 1979 Nicaraguan revolution, the stalemated civil war in El Salvador, and the Contra insurgency in Nicaragua. His sophisticated analysis provides a much-needed antidote to the facile analogies drawn by some commentators and politicians, most notably former vice-president Dick Cheney, between Central America's wars and the US interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan.