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Afghanistan Brief

... and the 36th Engineer Brigade, 82d Airborne Division, on 27 February 2008. Colonel Richard ...

Blog post - Feb 29 2008 - 7:21am - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Armed Nation Building: The West's Unhappy History

... prices [8] ), hit a peak of $978.7 million in 1971 ($5.27 billion in 2010 prices), and finally ended in 1975 with the North Vietnamese ... [16] American Forces Press Service (DoD), February 17 2011. [17] Evaluating US Foreign Assistance to ...

Journal Article - Feb 27 2012 - 5:57am - 8 comments

We Own the Night

... come out of their homes with guns to aid their neighbor. [27] Researching the Impact of Night Raids The Wikileaks ... of night raids that were conducted between May 2010 and February 2011 was 6,282. [30]   This would equate to approximately 600 ...

Journal Article - Feb 22 2012 - 8:03am - 2 comments

The Right Tool for the Job: An Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Counterinsurgency Principles against Criminal Insurgency

... additional variables and generating hypotheses.” [27] The detailed case study approach allows this study to go beyond ... of Security Studies,” Small Wars Journal , (11 February 2011), www.swj.com , (16 March 2011). [29] Manwaring, ...

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Army Report Finds Major COIN Failure

... military commanders than I was in my series on it back in February, saying that they didn't understand counterinsurgency doctrine and ... for most. This doesn't address the disparity in wounded (27 v. 5), most of which occurred at the VPB. Re: Army Report Finds Major ...

Blog post - Jul 23 2009 - 12:06pm - 52 comments - 0 attachments

The Principles of Destruction in Irregular Warfare: Theory and Practice

... the dominance of the destructive principle.” [27] Clausewitz referred to the principle repeatedly, and its early ... had meanwhile occupied Sinai and had reached Khan Yunis in February 1917 and Gaza in March, they would have been withdrawn anyway as their ...

Journal Article - Jan 4 2012 - 4:25am - 14 comments

Attaining Sustainable Security through Civic Space for Religious Actors

... figure,” or discrediting or eliminating them. [27] It highlights the religious narrative offered by al Qaeda to attract ... for Afghanistan and Pakistan, U.S. Department of State, February 2010; Gilles Dorronsoro, “The Tliban’s Winning Strategy in ...

Journal Article - Jan 5 2012 - 6:26am - 3 comments

Crowdsourcing: A New Perspective on Human Intelligence Collection in a Counterinsurgency

... reprisal are palpable and their consequences are dire. In Afghanistan alone, the United Nations observed “…462 ... clocks and text messaging) used almost all the time by 27% of respondents and very or quite often by 31% (SSI, 2011).  In 2009 ... and confidence in the system.  Between February and August of 2010 only 100 of the 12,286 reports received by the ...

Journal Article - Jan 3 2012 - 4:59pm - 2 comments

Lopsided Wars of Peace: America’s Anemic Ability to Project Civilian Power

... security environment. Recent Coalition efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan show that both are interdependent and require simultaneous action. ... , accessed 7 February, 2011. [ii] U.S. General Accounting Office. ... Iraq, Report Says,” Washington Times , February 27, 2006, available from ...

Journal Article - Dec 12 2011 - 6:54am - 3 comments