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Showing 1 to 20 of 112 for “"Insurgent"”.
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Gulbuddin Hekmatyar : Afghanistan's persistent insurgent
Afghanistan has proved to be one of the most dangerous and unstable political environments in South Asia, if not the world. Against this backdrop, Islamic fundamentalist Gulbuddin Hekmatyar has waged a continuous guerilla war to gain control of the state. Towards this end, he has fought ambitious …
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Explaining cohesion, fragmentation, and control in insurgent groups
The internal unity and discipline of insurgent groups helps us understand the military effectiveness of armed groups, patterns of violence against civilians, and the ability of insurgent organizations to negotiate and demobilize, but the causes of insurgent cohesion and fragmentation have not been …
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Insurgent armies : explaining military loyalty after rebel victory
… of wartime institution-building. Threats to insurgent group survival cause variation in two types of institutions: leadership bodies that bind field commanders to political elites, and local governance systems that tie field commanders to rebel-controlled communities. These institutions shape …
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Insurgent strategies for creating inimitability within mature digital ecosystems
Rich software application functionality once constrained to the desktop is now available via the World Wide Web (WWW) with the introduction of emergent Web2.0 technologies. Leveraging the Softwareas- a-service (SaaS) model, companies can build Web-native, Operating System (OS) independent, …
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Organization and community : the determinants of insurgent military effectiveness
… of dollars and thousands of lives confronting insurgent organizations across the globe. Strikingly, however, there has been little analysis of how some groups have developed the military capacity to challenge superior forces. The importance of this question has been illustrated by the recent …
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How Insurgent Groups Emerge: The political process in democratic Nigeria
… significantly different regions develop into insurgent organizations in Nigeria after its return to democratic rule on 29 May 1999? Although the northeast and Niger Delta regions are poles apart in historical, material, and socio-cultural structures, they bore the rise of Boko Haram and the …
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Examining the influence of civilian casualties on insurgent attacks in Iraq
… of these casualties on the Iraqi population and insurgent organizations has not been thoroughly examined. From the literature of the motives and mechanisms behind the formation and expansion of insurgencies, as well as the culture and values of Iraqi society, it is expected that increased …
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The Insurgent's Dilemma: A Theory of Mobilization and Conflict Outcome
… I argue that all rebel groups face a core "Insurgent's Dilemma." On the one hand, insurgent groups often need to become organizationally centralized and have a large-scale administrative presence in order to mobilize a large amount of popular support, because with higher levels of popular …
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An Iolausian endeavour : exploring why the regenerative capacities of insurgent actors weaken
For 'insurgent actors' like al-Qaeda or Jaish al-Mahdi, the ability to replace their losses with new recruits is one that can significantly affect the likely intensity and success of their campaigns. Weakening this capacity to regenerate is thus a seemingly promising means of combating insurgent …
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An Iolausian endeavour : exploring why the regenerative capacities of insurgent actors weaken
For 'insurgent actors' like al-Qaeda or Jaish al-Mahdi, the ability to replace their losses with new recruits is one that can significantly affect the likely intensity and success of their campaigns. Weakening this capacity to regenerate is thus a seemingly promising means of combating insurgent …
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Planning Beyond Crisis: The Promise of Insurgent Planning in Post-Disaster Mocoa
… to our understanding of variability among insurgent planning actors and their invented spaces for engagement in the context of disaster, by defining technocratic resistance as a valid form of dissent inside the government, and by proposing a new device for the study of insurgent planning …
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Hostile Takeover: The New Right Insurgent Movement, Ronald Reagan, and the Republican Party, 1977-1984
… the New Right arose during the 1970s as an insurgent movement within the Republican Party that had become disillusioned with party elites and its moderate positions. Together, these men sought to move the Republican Party further to the right. They led fundraising groups for congressional …
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Livelihoods, capabilities and insurgent citizenship in and around a rainforest metropolis : from violent urbanism to a new rurality?
… approach and drawing on the capabilities and insurgent citizenship theoretical frameworks, this study compares urban and rural contexts, analysing the experiences of people who are relatively marginalized within Brazil’s highly stratified society. This thesis is the result of a journey that …
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The struggle for a just recovery: Insurgent planning, transnational networks, and colonial legacies in post-disaster Puerto Rico
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2023-04-12 without embargo terms
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Satan vs. Satan: the use of Black PSYOP to regain the tactical initiative in the counterinsurgency fight
In the counterinsurgency fight, the insurgent has the tactical initiative because he is able to pick the time, place, and intensity of his own engagements. The insurgent's environment, however, is a very difficult one despite his initiative. The insurgent must balance the mutually exclusive …
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Criminals and insurgents the role of ethnicity in state responses to internal resource competitors
… upon the level of ethnic homogeneity of the insurgent elements. Where a mono-ethnic insurgent threat develops, the government faces a potential separatist movement seeking secession from the country as a means to address its grievances. The government will have no option other than …
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The role of framing in counterinsurgency/counterterrorism operations the status of hearts and minds
… Framing offers insights into terrorist and insurgent operations that are only recently being addressed but still not widely capitalized on by current U.S. Army operations in Iraq. My focus is on the role of framing in the U.S. counterterrorism effort, and I will demonstrate how insurgent and …
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Civil War Incentives, Identities, And Group Allegiances In Syria's Contested Provinces: A Case Study On Civil War
… characterize the nature of participation on the insurgent side of the conflict. Further, this project sets out to identify key events and actors in their respective geographic and demographic frameworks in order to identify the nature of participants and their respective characteristics. I will …
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