Background
Moyar was born May 12, 1971 in Cleveland, Ohio to Bert and Marjorie Moyar.
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According to the prevailing view of counterinsurgency, the key to defeating insurgents is selecting methods that will win the people’s hearts and minds. The hearts-and-minds theory permeates not only most counterinsurgency books of the twenty-first century but the U.S. Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual, the U.S. military’s foremost text on counterinsurgency. Mark Moyar assails this conventional wisdom, asserting that the key to counterinsurgency is selecting commanders who have superior leadership abilities. Whereas the hearts-and-minds school recommends allocating much labor and treasure to economic, social, and political reforms, Moyar advocates concentrating resources on security, civil administration, and leadership development. Moyar presents a wide-ranging history of counterinsurgency, from the Civil War and Reconstruction to Afghanistan and Iraq, that draws on the historical record and interviews with hundreds of counterinsurgency veterans, including top leaders in today’s armed forces. Through a series of case studies, Moyar identifies the ten critical attributes of counterinsurgency leadership and reveals why these attributes have been much more prevalent in some organizations than others. He explains how the U.S. military and America’s allies in Afghanistan and Iraq should revamp their personnel systems in order to elevate more individuals with those attributes. A Question of Command will reshape the study and practice of counterinsurgency warfare. With counterinsurgency now one of the most pressing issues facing the United States, this book is a must-read for policymakers, military officers, and citizens.
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Moyar was born May 12, 1971 in Cleveland, Ohio to Bert and Marjorie Moyar.
Moyar holds a Bachelor of Arts summa cum laude in history from and a Doctor of Philosophy in history from Cambridge University. His articles on historical and current events have appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post.
Moyar is the author of the 2006 book Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1954–1965, a history that is considered revisionist by many American historians. In it he argues that Ngo Dinh Diem was an effective leader.
Moyar states that supporting the November 1963 coup was one of the worst American mistakes of the war.
The other biggest mistakes according to Moyar were: the failure to cut the Ho Chi Minh trail, and the United States Congress" refusal to support the South Vietnamese government after the 1973 Paris Peace Accords were violated, and the refusal of emergency aid to South Vietnam near the end of the war.
Triumph Forsaken caused a great stir and many opinionated reviews, some negative, as well as some positive. In response to the reactions engendered by the book, Andrew Wiest and Michael J. Doidge edited Triumph revisited: historians battle for the Vietnam War(2010), a collection of detailed reviews of the book by 15 different academic historians.
The reviews are attached to responses by Moyar, who challenges the criticism of his work.
He joined the Joint Special Operations University in 2013 as a Senior Fellow. Previously he was Director of Research at Orbis Operations which he joined in July 2010 after serving as a professor at the Marine Corps University where he held the Kim T. Adamson Chair of Insurgency and Terrorism. Moyar is known for his writing on the Vietnam War.
He has two siblings.
David Moyar and Dean Moyar.
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