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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"counter-insurgency"”.
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Who Lives There: Role of Embedded Troops in Counter-Insurgency Operations
… insurgents and emphasized the tactics of counterinsurgency (COIN). The strategic and tactical goals of COIN operations are for governments to bring about stability and effective governance to the local populace of nations. These goals have not materialized the way US commanders have hoped. …
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The role of PMCs (Private Military Companies) in counter-insurgency combat in Afghanistan (2001 to 2010).
"The Role of PMCs (Private Military Companies) in Counter-insurgency Combat in Afghanistan (2001 to 2010)" aims to identify the primary combat roles which PMCs played while in support of U.S. forces during the counterinsurgency campaign in Afghanistan from 2001-2010. It first provides background on …
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Contested connections: Networks and genre in twentieth-century British and Irish literature
… between Big House literature and propagandistic counter-insurgency prose; these similarities, I assert, justify labeling Bowen’s The Last September and Molly Keane’s Two Days in Aragon, which are typically classified as Big House novels, works of counter-insurgency literature. Finally, Chapter 3 …
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Inter -Rebel Group Dynamics: Cooperation or Competition. The Case of South Asia
… when the government undertakes large-scale counter-insurgency operations. Also groups are more likely to establish cooperative relations with other groups that have symmetrical goals and resource endowments. Case studies from Sri Lanka, Kashmir and Assam confirm the model's implications.
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Countering-insurgency : a comparative analysis of campaigns in Malaya (1948-1960), Kenya (1952-1960) and Rhodesia (1964-1980)
… the present; could this be the case for modern counterinsurgency operations in countries resembling Iraq and Afghanistan? This research set out to study three historical counter-insurgencies campaigns in, Malaya (1947-1960), Kenya (1952- 1960) and Rhodesia (1964-1980), with a view to …
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The Development and Application of the "Petraeus Doctrine" During the 2007 Iraq Troop "Surge"
… to Iraq as part of a troop Surge to wage a counter-offensive based on the tactics of the newly developed Petraeus Doctrine. This thesis analyzes the events leading up to and surrounding the Surge and the role of the Petraeus Doctrine the successful defeat of the insurgency and strengthening …
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Assessing guerrilla doctrine: battlefield lessons on network structure and multi-front insurgency
… items of consistent, yet incomplete analysis in counter-insurgency (COIN) analytics and civil war scholarship. Following a review of five of the most infamously disseminated guerrilla doctrine and training manuals, this thesis derives a model of advised guerrilla war production. The derived model …
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An Opposition in Search of Itself: Modern French Cinema and the Algerian War
… Bank Group demonstrate how the horrors of the counter-insurgency in Algeria permeated everyday life in the metropole.
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Rule by exception : development, displacement and dissent In greater Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
… has increasingly used laws meant initially for counter-insurgency operations for the purposes of development. I argue that the urban planning in Kuala Lumpur must be seen as a form of urban law-fare (the use of techniques of war for political or economic ends; Comaroff, 2001) and that the …
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Propaganda, publicity and political violence : the presentation of terrorism in Britain, 1944-60
… assesses the role of government propaganda in counter-insurgency. While some attention is paid to the employment of propaganda within the affected colonies themselves (as part of the 'hearts and minds' strategy), the focus is largely on government attempts to influence wider international …
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A Socio-Environmental History of Dispossession and Displacement in the Zimunya, Marange and Bvumba (Chirara) Communities of Eastern Zimbabwe, 1920s - 2015
… and Bvumba. During the Liberation War, Rhodesian counter- insurgency methods included the introduction of the Protected Villages (PVs), curfews and collective punishments. These, along with RENAMO’s episodic raids resulted in renewed threats of dispossession, loss of lives, forced dislocations and …
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The role of youths in Zimbabwe Liberation Struggle: A case study of Bulilima District, 1960-1980.
This study is about the involvement and participation of Bulilima youths in Zimbabwe’s national liberation struggle from 1960 to 1980. The study describes and explains how and to what extent Bulilima youths were involved and participated in Zimbabwean guerrilla war. Bulilima is a border district …
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State building as strategy: An interrogation of NATO's comprehensive approach in Afghanistan between 2006 and 2011
The core of this thesis is the study of NATO's Comprehensive Approach strategy to state building in Afghanistan between 2006 and 2011. It argues that this strategy sustained operational and tactical practices which were ineffective in responding to the evolved nature of the security problem. The …
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Cover stories & undercover stories apartheid South Africa 1969-1984
At its narrowest, this dissertation centers around one question: how did the apartheid state’s security forces decide to send the bomb that killed Jeanette and Katryn Schoon on the 28th of June 1984? This dissertation argues that the targeting of Jeanette Schoon was neither random nor thoughtless, …
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Destruction as Rule: Containment, Censuring and Confusion in Pakistani Balochistan
… docile for the same purpose. These networks, or “counter-societies,” are collective identities that transgress and resist the state’s version of society proper, e.g. through the collective identities of the anti-colonial rebel, the revolutionary communist, or the separatist ethnonationalist. In …