This volume by Metz (national security affairs, Strategic Studies Institute) reevaluates American counterinsurgency doctrine in the light of the Iraq occupation experience. He concludes that current counterinsurgency reforms undertaken by the Department of Defense are inadequate and that optimizing counterinsurgency capability requires an organization which is: intelligence-centric, fully interagency in nature, capable of rapid response and sustained high-level involvement in a protracted operation, able to seamlessly integrate with partners, culturally and psychologically adept, and capable of rapid organizational and tactical adjustment. Ultimately, Metz argues, the US might need to replace counterinsurgency doctrine with the broader concept of stabilization and transformation operations that treats military force as a secondary factor in counterinsurgency. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) Read Less