The Salvadoran Crucible - 9780700625123

The Salvadoran CrucibleThe Failure of U.S. Counterinsurgency in El Salvador, 1979-1992\nAuthor(s): Brian D'Haeseleer\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University Press of Kansas, United States\nImprint: University Press of Kansas\nISBN-13: 9780700625123, 978-0700625123\nSynopsis\nIn 1979, with El Salvador growing ever more unstable and ripe for revolution, the United States undertook a counterinsurgency intervention that over the following decade would become Washingtons largest nation-building effort since Vietnam. In 2003, policymakers looked to this successful undertaking as a model for US intervention in Iraq. In fact, Brian DHaeseleer argues in The Salvadoran Crucible, the US counterinsurgency in El Salvador produced no more than a stalemate, and in the process inflicted tremendous suffering on Salvadorans for a limited amount of foreign policy gains. DHaeseleers book is a deeply informed, dispassionate account of how the Salvadoran venture took shape, what it actually accomplished,.