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The American military's failure to plan for an insurgency following their quick victory over the Iraqi army was a major strategic error. For over three years after the rout of Iraq's regular forces, American troops had to fight a tenacious insurgency despite the fact that their tactical approach was ill-suited for such warfare. Beginning in 2005, a group of military intellectuals began to develop a new approach to counterinsurgency, one that was population-centered. Launched in 2007 by General Petraeus, it proved remarkably successful, and the situation in Iraq has improved significantly. Aspects of the approach are now being applied in Afghanistan, and will undoubtedly guide American military practice for the foreseeable future. One of the key intellectual figures behind the transformation of American military strategy was the Australian theorist David Kilcullen, whose articles and papers quickly achieved legendary status among military strategists. In Counterinsurgency, Kilcullen will gather together his seminal articles in one concise volume. The book will act as a 'rough guide' to counterinsurgency for practitioners, and serve as tight theoretical volume for students and academics of current military strategy. It will feature four updated and annotated versions of his key essays: &quote;Twenty-Eight Articles: Fundamentals of Counterinsurgency Warfare;&quote; &quote;Multi-National Force Iraq Counterinsurgency Guidance&quote; (the document that laid out the counterinsurgency techniques associated with the Surge in Iraq), &quote;Afghanistan: Fundamentals of Best-Practice Counterinsurgency,&quote; and &quote;Measuring Progress in Counterinsurgency.&quote;

Counterinsurgency. --- Counterguerrilla warfare --- Guerrilla warfare --- Insurgency

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A collection of the 30 most recent resolved insurgencies, covering the period 1978 to 2008, along with a bank of 76 factors that helped or hindered the COIN force in each case and in each phase of each case, supplements an analysis of historical and contemporary insurgencies, providing valuable lessons for U.S. engagement in and support for COIN operations.

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In Resisting Rebellion, Anthony James Joes explores insurgencies ranging across five continents and spanning more than two centuries. Analyzing examples from North and South America, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East, he identifies recurrent patterns and offers useful lessons for future policymakers. Insurgencies arise from many sources of discontent, including foreign occupation, fraudulent elections, and religious persecution, but they also stem from ethnic hostilities, the aspirations of would-be elites, and traditions of political violence. Because insurgency is as much a political ph

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Western counterinsurgency doctrine proposes that cultural intelligence is an important requirement for those forces operating amidst the unfamiliar socio-political structures often found in distant conflict zones. Yet while the determination to understand the intricate nature of alien societies may appear a rational undertaking in such circumstances, Christian Tripodi argues that these endeavours rarely help deliver success. The frictions of war and the complex human, cultural and political 'terrain' of the operating environment render such efforts highly problematic. In their attempts to generate and instrumentalize local knowledge for the purpose of exerting influence and control, western military actors are drawn into the unwelcome realm of counterinsurgency as a form of political warfare. Their operating environment now becomes a space charged with phenomena that they rarely comprehend, rarely even see and which they struggle to exert any meaningful control over. All in pursuit of a victory that might literally mean nothing.

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War --- Counterinsurgency. --- Guerre --- Contre-rébellion --- History --- Histoire --- Contre-rébellion --- Counterinsurgency --- Counterguerrilla warfare --- Guerrilla warfare --- Insurgency