02784cam a2200469 i 4500001001900000003000500019008004100024010001300065020001500078027002100093035002000114037001100134040001900145043002100164050002100185100003400206245014700240264003700387300003000424336002600454337002600480337002800506338003600534338002700570500005000597504005300647520091500700530005801615588004701673650003601720650003801756650004801794651005201842651004901894651004401943651005201987710010202039710002202141710007302163856005902236999001902295rnd000000000112637RAND921111s1991    cau      b    000 0 eng d  a92148042  a0833012185  aRAND/R-4042-USDP  a(Sirsi) a324811  c$30.00  aCstmoRcCstmoR  an-us---ances---00aUA23b.S368 19911 aSchwarz, Benjamin C.eauthor.10aAmerican counterinsurgency doctrine and El Salvador :bthe frustrations of reform and the illusions of nation building /cBenjamin C. Schwarz. 1aSanta Monica, CA :bRAND,c1991.  axviii, 106 pages ;c23 cm  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aunmediatedbn2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  avolumebnc2rdacarrier  a"National Defense Research Institute"--Cover.  aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 95-106).  aThis 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.  aAlso available on the internet via WWW in PDF format.  aDescription based on print version record. 0aCounterinsurgencyzEl Salvador. 0aCounterinsurgencyzUnited States. 0aMilitary assistance, AmericanzEl Salvador. 0aEl SalvadorxMilitary relationszUnited States. 0aUnited StatesxForeign relationsy1981-1989. 0aUnited StatesxForeign relationsy1989- 0aUnited StatesxMilitary relationszEl Salvador.2 aNational Defense Research Institute (U.S.).bInternational Security and Defense Strategy Program.2 aRand Corporation.1 aUnited States.bOffice of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy.41yOnline Accessuhttp://www.rand.org/pubs/reports/R4042/  c596868d596868