There’s no checklist for counterinsurgency
11.19.2010 at 04:35pm
Joshua Rovner and Tim Hoyt; assistant professor and professor, respectively, of strategy and policy at the U.S. Naval War College; are skeptical about a recent RAND study Victory has a Thousand Fathers. They explain why in their Foreign Policy opinion piece There’s No Checklist for Counterinsurgency. BLUF: “State-building usually includes a period of ruthless competition for power, and some “bad practices” are usually necessary to end it. Efforts to stop the process in midstream in the name of COIN doctrine may prove tragic if they end up prolonging the conflict without settling the underlying political issues.”
