Author: Seth G. Jones
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: counterinsurgency, volume, study, rand, afghanistan
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2008
ISBN-10: 0833041339
ISBN-13: 9780833041333

This study explores the nature of the insurgency in Afghanistan, the key challenges and successes of the U.S.-led counterinsurgency campaign, and the capabilities necessary to wage effective counterinsurgency operations. By examining the key lessons from all insurgencies since World War II, it finds that most policymakers repeatedly underestimate the importance of indigenous actors to counterinsurgency efforts. The U.S. should focus its resources on helping improve the capacity of the indigenous government and indigenous security forces to wage counterinsurgency. It has not always done this we

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: Bruce R. Pirnie Edward O’Connell
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: counterinsurgency, volume, study, rand, iraq
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2008
ISBN-10: 0833042971
ISBN-13: 9780833042972

This monograph outlines strategic considerations relative to counterinsurgency campaigns; presents an overview of the current conflict in Iraq, focusing on counterinsurgency; analyzes counterinsurgency operations in Iraq; presents conclusions about counterinsurgency, based on the U.S. experience in Iraq; describes implications from that experience for future counterinsurgency operations; and offers recommendations to improve the ability of the U.S. government to conduct counterinsurgency in the future. For example, U.S. counterinsurgency experience in Iraq has revealed the need to achieve syne

Author: Stephen T. Hosmer S. O. Crane
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: april, symposium, counterinsurgency
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2006
ISBN-10: 0833039830
ISBN-13: 9780833039835

This report is based on the Symposium on Counterinsurgency held at RAND

Authors:Alan J. Vick, Adam Grissom, William Rosenau, Beth
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: usaf, advisory, assistance, missions, importance, strategic, power, new, counterinsurgency, era, air
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2006
ISBN-10: 0833039636
ISBN-13: 9780833039637

Often treated by Americans as an exceptional form of warfare, insurgency is anything but. Spanning the globe, centuries, and societies, insurgency is quite common. Given the threat insurgency presents to U.S. interests and allies around the world, the importance of counterinsurgency is no surprise. However, history has shown that insurgencies are rarely defeated by outside powers. Rather, the best role for outsiders is an indirect one: training, advising, and equipping the local nation, which must win the war politically and militarily. And while counterinsurgency might seem to be a task most

Author: William Rosenau
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: study, paper, counterinsurgency, rand, insurgency, subversion
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2007
ISBN-10: 0833041231
ISBN-13: 9780833041234

The conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan have generated intense interest in counterinsurgency within the U.S. armed forces, the intelligence community, the State Department, and the Department of Defense. However, subversion

Authors:David C. Gompert, John Gordon, IV, Adam Grissom,
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: counterinsurgency, rand, study, final, report, capabilities, means, building, complete, balanced, war
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2008
ISBN-10: 0833043099
ISBN-13: 9780833043092

The difficulties encountered by the United States in securing Iraq and Afghanistan despite years of effort and staggering costs raises the central question of the RAND Counterinsurgency Study: How should the United States improve its capabilities to counter insurgencies, particularly those that are heavily influenced by transnational terrorist movements and thus linked into a global jihadist network? This capstone volume to the study draws on other reports in the series as well as an examination of 89 insurgencies since World War II, an analysis of the new challenges posed by what is becoming