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... Tribal Engagement and the Heavy History of Counterinsurgency Light by Hannah Gurman Download the full ... this enforcement mechanism will look like? What are the rules, institutions and procedures you seek to impose on the locals to enforce ...

Journal Article - Jun 6 2010 - 7:50pm - 50 comments

... I'd like to digress from my usual analysis of insurgent strategy and tactics to speak out on an issue of grave importance ... or a thing to which one has a just claim. Rights serve as rules of interaction between people, and, as such, they place constraints and ...

Blog post - Oct 31 2007 - 2:30pm - 215 comments - 0 attachments

... with the locals. It was to be a capstone event, the fruit of a four-month counterinsurgency offensive by Marines, North Atlantic Treaty ... with one side playing rugby with the other using soccer rules. Re: The Great Myth: Counterinsurgency Outside of his own ...

Blog post - Jul 25 2010 - 4:27am - 47 comments - 0 attachments

... looking in, the enemy vs. friendly equation seems out of balance here given these quotes: "Afghan President Hamid Karzai ... basis, the OED says the to codify is to "arrange (laws or rules) into a systematic code". In other words, to codify is to coherently ...

Blog post - Jun 19 2011 - 12:50pm - 14 comments - 0 attachments

... individuals, groups and cultures. The current definition of good governance as outlined in a recent report on threats from safe havens ... rational cost-benefit analysis than shaped by traditional rules of behavior that governs competition and cooperation amongst the various ...

Blog post - Jan 30 2008 - 8:50pm - 2 comments - 0 attachments