"This book examines how strategic narratives are produced, deployed, and legitimized to enable the capture of the geostrategic discursive space during times of war fighting failure. Using case studies, it examines the key actors and the deployment of key analogies that produce a narrative to overcome fragmentation during times of crisis"-- Provided by publisher.

Analytical framework -- The opening act of U.S. counterinsurgency: the strategic hamlet program -- Iraq: the rebirth of counterinsurgency -- Afghanistan: COIN challenged and continued.