Author: David C. Gompert
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: counterinsurgency, study, paper, rand, coin, cognitive, heads, win
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2007
ISBN-10: 0833040219
ISBN-13: 9780833040213

Current U.S. counterinsurgency (COIN) strategy has relied heavily on the use of force against Islamist insurgents

Author: Austin Long
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: counterinsurgency, research, rand, decades, lessons, five, war
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2006
ISBN-10: 0833039261
ISBN-13: 9780833039262

The challenges posed by insurgency and instability have proved difficult to surmount. This difficulty may embolden future opponents to embrace insurgency in combating the United States. Both the current and future conduct of the war on terror demand that the United States improve its ability to conduct counterinsurgency (COIN) operations. This study makes recommendations for improving COIN based on RAND

Author: Austin Long
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: counterinsurgency, doctrine, study, paper, rand, military, eternal, recurrence
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2008
ISBN-10: 0833044702
ISBN-13: 9780833044709

The publication of a new counterinsurgency (COIN) doctrine manual in late 2006 was widely heralded as an indication that the U.S. military was finally coming to understand the problems it has recently faced in Iraq and Afghanistan. However, this interpretation assumes a tight linkage between doctrine as written and operations as actually conducted. By comparing modern counterinsurgency doctrine and operations to those of 1960s, this paper tests and ultimately disproves this proposition. An examination of COIN doctrine and operations in the 1960s reveals that operations seldom matched written d

Authors:Angel Rabasa, Lesley Anne Warner, Peter Chalk, Iv
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: counterinsurgency, operations, rand, study, paper, coin, money, lessons, learned, past, bank
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2007
ISBN-10: 0833041592
ISBN-13: 9780833041593

As insurgent threats evolve and assume new forms, the United States must also evolve in its ability to counter potentially prolonged threats in several parts of the world. Because of the potential for global reach in contemporary insurgencies, the ability to draw on lessons learned from past counterinsurgency (COIN) campaigns using different historical cases can be valuable, helping current and future leaders prevent a repetition of mistakes and building a foundation on which to build contemporary responses. To this end, six historic COIN operations from the 19th and 20th centuries are examine

Authors:Christopher Paul, Colin P. Clarke, Beth Grill,
Publisher: RAND Corporatio
Keywords: success, counterinsurgency, sources, fathers, thousand, victory
Number of Pages: 188
Published: 2010-09-16
ISBN-10: 0833049615
ISBN-13: 9780833049612

Insurgency is the most prevalent form of armed conflict and the subject of countless studies, yet the U.S. military has only recently begun to review doctrine and training in this area. An examination of approaches to counterinsurgency from 30 recent resolved campaigns reveals, for example, that good COIN practices tend to ’run in packs’ and that the balance of selected good and bad practices perfectly predicts the outcome of a conflict. From the PublisherInsurgency has been the most prevalent form of armed conflict since at least 1949, as well as the subject of countless historic

Author: John B. Peatman
Publisher: LL
Keywords: design, embedded, powered, cell, coin
Published: 2008
eBookDB-ID: B001CJY5UE

Coin-Cell-Powered Embedded Design is a college text for junior/senior computer engineering students and for practicing engineers. The book develops low-power design techniques using a Microchip Technology PIC18LF4321 nanoWatt Technology™ general purpose microcontroller. A series of template programs fosters code development in C for both the novice and the experienced programmer, compiled with Microchip Technology’s free version of their C18 compiler. The low-cost Qwik&Low board shown on the book cover serves as a target system and includes QwikBug, a built-in debugging interface requiring onl

Author: John Mackinlay Alison Al-Baddawy
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: counterinsurgency, volume, study, rand, rethinking
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2008
ISBN-10: 0833044753
ISBN-13: 9780833044754

During the period of decolonization in Asia and Africa, the United Kingdom faced more insurgent activity than any other Western power. British government officials and military forces proved proficient at defeating or controlling these rebellions. However, these uprisings were much less complex than the modern jihadist insurgency. Past insurgent movements were primarily monolithic or national in form, had very specific local goals, and derived most of their power from the local population. These limitations made past rebellions vulnerable to strong military responses. In contrast, the modern j