02753cam a2200457 i 4500 rnd000000000112637 RAND 921111s1991 cau b 000 0 eng d 92148042 0833012185 RAND/R-4042-USDP (Sirsi) a324811 $30.00 CstmoR CstmoR n-us--- nces--- UA23 .S368 1991 Schwarz, Benjamin C. author. American counterinsurgency doctrine and El Salvador : the frustrations of reform and the illusions of nation building / Benjamin C. Schwarz. Santa Monica, CA : RAND, 1991. xviii, 106 pages ; 23 cm text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia unmediated n rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier volume nc rdacarrier "National Defense Research Institute"--Cover. Includes bibliographical references (p. 95-106). This report assesses the political and social dimensions of American counterinsurgency policy in El Salvador. It attempts to explain why low-intensity-conflict doctrine has not produced the desired results and to reassess that doctrine's future utility. The author's appraisal of U.S. involvement in El Salvador leads him to conclude that there is a vast disparity between U.S. objectives and achievements there. For a decade, U.S. policy toward El Salvador tried to synthesize liberal and conservative aims: foster political, social, and economic reform, and provide security to a country whose freedom from communism the United States deemed essential. In attempting to reconcile these objectives, however, the United States pursued a policy that used means unsettling to itself, for ends humiliating to the Salvadorans, and at a cost disproportionate to any conventional conception of the national interest. Also available on the internet via WWW in PDF format. Description based on print version record. Counterinsurgency El Salvador. Counterinsurgency United States. Military assistance, American El Salvador. El Salvador Military relations United States. United States Foreign relations 1981-1989. United States Foreign relations 1989- United States Military relations El Salvador. National Defense Research Institute (U.S.). International Security and Defense Strategy Program. Rand Corporation. United States. Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy. Online Access http://www.rand.org/pubs/reports/R4042/ 596868 596868