Hearts-and-Minds: A Strategy of Conciliation, Coercion, or Commitment.

摘要

The preceding quotations expressing superficially discordant sentiments might serve as sound admonishments for two entirely distinct civil- military problems faced by two separate Joint Force Commanders. In fact nothing could be further from the truth. Enjoying unprecedented plenipotentiary power as British High Commissioner in Malaya, Lieutenant General (later Field Marshal) Sir Gerald Templer (1898-1979) described the approach he employed prosecuting the most successful and consequently prototypical counterinsurgency (COIN) in modern history, the Malayan Emergency (1948-1960), in precisely these terms.