Six Reasons Counterinsurgencies Lose
07.27.2009 at 11:25pm
Six Reasons Counterinsurgencies Lose
A Complementary Perspective
by Captain James Cahill
Six Reasons Counterinsurgencies Lose (Full PDF Article)
Dr. Donald Stoker’s article, Six Reasons Insurgencies Lose: A Contrarian View, provides a welcome paradigm shift to assist U.S. military practitioners analyze the outcome of past insurgencies, and by extension formulate strategies to defeat future insurgencies. Similar to Stoker’s argument that insurgents often fail through their own missteps, counterinsurgents can also be their own worst enemy. Therefore, the following list of reasons why counterinsurgencies lose complements Dr. Stoker’s perspective.
