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... Victory Has a Thousand Fathers: Evidence of Effective Approaches to ...

Journal Article - Jan 17 2011 - 6:35am - 5 comments

... Scientist working out of RAND's Pittsburgh office and has developed methodological competencies in comparative historical and case ... at 1000 CST, 1100 EST, 1500 ZULU. His brief is entitled "Victory Has A Thousand Fathers". Please see this linked slide for more ...

Blog post - Sep 9 2010 - 6:14pm - 6 comments - 0 attachments

... Thomas explores the romance of COIN theory and where it has gotten us in Afghanistan, suggesting instead we follow the less romantic, ... side” and intend to prevail until complete victory is secured The modern day COIN warriors, including the authors ...

Journal Article - Mar 13 2012 - 11:56am - 35 comments

... Mexico is currently engulfed by rampant violence that has taken over 40,000 lives since 2006. [1] Secretary of State Hillary ... Christopher Paul, Colin P. Clarke, and Beth Grill, Victory has a Thousand Fathers , (Santa Monica: RAND, 2010). [22] ...

Blog post - Feb 11 2012 - 10:26am - 18 comments - 0 attachments

... in the way it did. But let's say that the government has not been able to stop the insurgency from developing and the insurgency ... over the four yearly break up suggests that the odds of victory break towards the counterinsurgent in the 11th year. With the ...

Journal Article - Jan 26 2011 - 6:54am - 79 comments

... doctrine for the U.S. armed forces. While the manual has its share of detractors, even its fiercest critics acknowledge that it is ... primary assumption appears on its first page: "[a]chieving victory...depends on a group's ability to mobilize support for its political ...

Journal Article - May 5 2011 - 9:01pm - 73 comments

... to consult with them on internal Iraqi issues.  It has been reported that some Iraqi Parliament Members and Iraqi Ministers have ... involvement. The El Salvador "conflict" was a victory unless you consider the 70,000 dead Salvadorans from government and ...

Journal Article - Dec 30 2011 - 6:26pm - 38 comments

... all designed to support a Personnel Management system that has become a law unto itself and demands to be supported rather than to support ... implement a terror campaign to consolidate their "military victory". Interesting twist on history you propose, but I don't see any facts ...

Blog post - Aug 12 2010 - 8:14pm - 62 comments - 0 attachments

... nation-builders. Yet the US government and the US military has no doctrine and no body of evidence showing how to build another nation. ... RAND study of recent insurgencies I led in 2009-10, Victory Has a Thousand Fathers: Sources of Success in Counterinsurgency ...

Journal Article - Dec 20 2011 - 5:36pm - 12 comments

... Victory Has a Thousand Fathers: Sources of Success in Counterinsurgency - Christopher ...

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