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Showing 1 to 20 of 94 for “"counterinsurgency."”.
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Optimizing counterinsurgency operations
… forces needed or that measure success during a counterinsurgency. These types of models depend on data from historic counterinsurgencies, but scholars differ on how to compare historic counterinsurgencies to an ongoing or future conflict. One such method to analyze counterinsurgencies applies a …
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Counterinsurgency Colonels: The Role of the Practitioner In the Evolution of Modern Counterinsurgency
… has attempted to develop and implement a modern counterinsurgency strategy to face the emerging, adaptive threats of the 21st Century. After abandoning counterinsurgency following the ruinous movement of the Vietnam War, the Army as an institution, has focused its collective efforts on creating a …
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Governance, Identity, and Counterinsurgency Strategy
The premise of most Western thinking on counterinsurgency is that success depends on establishing a perception of legitimacy among local populations. The path to legitimacy is often seen as the improvement of governance in the form of effective and efficient administration of government and public …
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Toward an effective and humane counterinsurgency
… to understand to conduct effective and humane counterinsurgency. A meta-synthesis of eight classical theorists of counterinsurgency sought support for and consensus on these principles and discovered considerable consensus on all of them. Therefore, this set could be considered a “classical” …
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Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in Peru, 1962-1966
Insurgency and counterinsurgency in the developing world were crucial aspects of the global Cold War. Economic, political, religious, and social factors created tensions at the international, national, and local levels that drove conflict. Scholars can gain an increased understanding of these …
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Counterinsurgency and Counternarcotics Strategies: Colombia's Lessons for Afghanistan
… link counternarcotics operations with counterinsurgency operations in order to demobilize terrorists and the sources that fund them could explain the reason for which Colombia has proved successful in stabilization and Afghanistan, thus far, has not.</p>
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Effective Utilization of Foreign Aid in Counterinsurgency Operations
The repercussions of September 11, 2011 have been felt worldwide and have drastically changed the paradigm in which countries operate today. They have justified two wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and incursion into sovereign territories in pursuit of terrorists and insurgents. As insurgencies in Iraq …
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Coercion, Conversion and Counterinsurgency in Louis XIV's France
… focusing on the dragonnades of the 1680s and the counterinsurgency campaign waged against Protestant rebels in the mountains and plains of Languedoc. The study examines: (1) the decision-making process at the highest levels, highlighting the frequent debates among officials concerning the efficacy …
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Defeat in victory : organizational learning dysfunction in counterinsurgency
… the study of organizational learning and counterinsurgency. First, militaries often struggle to develop effective strategies to address the problem of counterinsurgency. Second, their strategic performance seldom improves over successive counterinsurgency campaigns. This study offers a …
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Selective leviathans : explaining state strategies of counterinsurgency and consolidation
… Puzzling cross-national variation in counterinsurgency-sometimes brutal, sometimes minimalist-has drawn some inquiry, but sub-national variation by the same state incumbent has largely been neglected. This study develops a core-periphery theory to explain why states choose different …
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First War Syndrome : military culture, professionalization, and counterinsurgency doctrine
Counterinsurgency was a persistent and important challenge to military organizations in the second half of the 20th century and seems likely to continue to pose a challenge in the 21st century. This makes understanding how military organizations respond to this challenge both an important policy …
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Helmand: The U.S. Marines and Counterinsurgency in Afghanistan, 2010-2012
… this thesis shows the process in which official counterinsurgency policy was put into action in the field.</p>
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Recognizing 'Game Changers' in Extrapolation Models: An Application to Counterinsurgency
<p>Recent empirical studies suggest insurgencies may be accurately described by aggregated extrapolation models, such that past behavior becomes the best predictor for future action. I argue that aggregated extrapolation models possess two flaws that make it a poor choice for examining …
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Eating soup with a knife : the South African military & counterinsurgency
Word processed copy. Includes bibliographical references.
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Organized crime in the United States organizational analogies for counterinsurgency strategy
… tactics and their applicability to modern counterinsurgency doctrine are an area for further study.
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Nothing to See Here: Generative AI, Neoliberal Crisis, and Intensified Counterinsurgency
… a heterogeneous field to be stabilized through counterinsurgency. Part two narrates the current intensification as an establishment response to the deepening crisis of neoliberal governmentality and the runaway aggregation of insurgency enabled by platform algorithms, securitizing genAI through …
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