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