Indigenous Forces and Sanctuary Denial
02.09.2008 at 07:38pm
Indigenous Forces and Sanctuary Denial
Enduring Counterinsurgency Imperatives
by LTC Robert M. Cassidy
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This article examines the twin imperatives to employ indigenous forces and to deny sanctuary in order to succeed in counterinsurgency. It examines American counterinsurgency doctrine from the Vietnam era and from the current era to glean enduring tenets for these two essential components of any counterinsurgency campaign. The article concludes with a distillation of some best practices for using indigenous forces to deny sanctuary and suggests some operational concepts for denying sanctuary in this long war.
