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Resolving Insurgencies
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Author : Thomas R. Mockaitis
language : en
Publisher: Strategic Studies Institute
Release Date : 2011
Resolving Insurgencies written by Thomas R. Mockaitis and has been published by Strategic Studies Institute this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with History categories.
Introduction -- Approach -- Insurgency -- Chronic insurgency and shadow governance -- Counterinsurgency -- Historical analysis : four different outcomes -- Group 1 : insurgent victories -- Group 2 : government victories -- Group 3 : degenerate insurgencies -- Group 4 : success through co-option -- Lessons -- A strategy of co-option -- Implications for Iraq and Afghanistan -- Conclusion.
Resolving Insurgencies
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Author : Thomas Mockaitis
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2012-06-08
Resolving Insurgencies written by Thomas Mockaitis and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-08 with categories.
Counterinsurgency remains the most challenging form of conflict conventional forces face. Embroiled in the longest period of sustained operations in its history, the U.S. Army maintains a fragile peace in Iraq and faces a chronic insurgency in Afghanistan. In much of Africa, Asia, and Latin America, active insurgent conflicts continue and potential ones abound. The United States may become involved in some of these conflicts, either directly or by providing aid to threatened governments. Understanding how insurgencies may be brought to a successful conclusion is, therefore, vital to military strategists and policymakers. The author, Dr. Thomas Mockaitis, examines in great detail how past insurgencies have ended and how current ones may be resolved. Drawing upon a dozen cases over half a century, the author identifies four ways in which insurgencies have ended. Clearcut victories for either the government or the insurgents occurred during the era of decolonization, but they seldom happen today. Recent insurgencies have often degenerated into criminal organizations committed to making money rather than fighting a revolution, or into terrorist groups capable of nothing more than sporadic violence. In a few cases, the threatened government has resolved the conflict by co-opting the insurgents. After achieving a strategic stalemate and persuading the belligerents that they have nothing to gain from continued fighting, these governments have drawn the insurgents into the legitimate political process through reform and concessions. This monograph concludes that such a co-option strategy offers the best hope of success in Afghanistan and in future counterinsurgency campaigns.
Resolving Insurgencies Enlarged Edition
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Author : Thomas R. Mockaitis
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013-07-17
Resolving Insurgencies Enlarged Edition written by Thomas R. Mockaitis and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-17 with Education categories.
Understanding how insurgencies may be brought to a successful conclusion is vital to military strategists and policymakers.This study examines how past insurgencies have ended and how current ones may be resolved. Four ways in which insurgencies have ended are identified. Clear-cut victories for either the government or the insurgents occurred during the era of decolonization, but they seldom happen today. Recent insurgencies have often degenerated into criminal organizations committed to making money rather than fighting a revolution or into terrorist groups capable of nothing more than sporadic violence. In a few cases, the threatened government has resolved the conflict by co-opting the insurgents. After achieving a strategic stalemate and persuading the belligerents that they have nothing to gain from continued fighting, these governments have drawn the insurgents into the legitimate political process through reform and concessions.
Resolving Insurgencies
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Author : Thomas R. Mockaitis
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022
Resolving Insurgencies written by Thomas R. Mockaitis and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022 with categories.
From Stalemate To Settlement
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Author : Colin P. Clarke
language : en
Publisher: Rand Corporation
Release Date : 2014-02-10
From Stalemate To Settlement written by Colin P. Clarke and has been published by Rand Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-10 with Political Science categories.
A comprehensive review of historical insurgencies that ended in settlement after a military stalemate shows that these negotiations followed a similar path that can be generalized into a “master narrative” of seven steps executed in a common sequence. Such a narrative could help guide and assess the progress of a similar approach to resolving the conflict in Afghanistan as U.S. forces prepare to withdraw.
Indian National Security And Counter Insurgency
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Author : Namrata Goswami
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-11-27
Indian National Security And Counter Insurgency written by Namrata Goswami and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-27 with History categories.
This book, based on extensive field research, examines the Indian state’s response to the multiple insurgencies that have occurred since independence in 1947. In reacting to these various insurgencies, the Indian state has employed a combined approach of force, dialogue, accommodation of ethnic and minority aspirations and, overtime, the state has established a tradition of negotiation with armed ethnic groups in order to bolster its legitimacy based on an accommodative posture. While these efforts have succeeded in resolving the Mizo insurgency, it has only incited levels of violence with regard to others. Within this backdrop of ongoing Indian counter-insurgency, this study provides a set of conditions responsible for the groundswell of insurgencies in India, and some recommendations to better formulate India’s national security policy with regard to its counter-insurgency responses. The study focuses on the national institutions responsible for formulating India’s national security policy dealing with counter-insurgency – such as the Prime Minister’s Office, the Cabinet Committee on Security, the National Security Council, the Ministry of Home Affairs and the Indian military apparatus. Furthermore, it studies how national interests and values influence the formulation of this policy; and the overall success and/or failure of the policy to deal with armed insurgent movements. Notably, the study traces the ideational influence of Kautilya and Gandhi in India’s overall response to insurgencies. Multiple cases of armed ethnic insurgencies in Assam, Manipur, Mizoram, and Nagaland in the Northeast of India and the ideologically oriented Maoist or Naxalite insurgency affecting the heartland of India are analysed in-depth to evaluate the Indian counter-insurgency experience. This book will be of much interest to students of counter-insurgency, Asian politics, ethnic conflict, and security studies in general.
Conflict And Conflict Resolution In The Sahel The Tuareg Insurgency In Mali
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Author : Kalifa Keita
language : en
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Release Date : 2022
Conflict And Conflict Resolution In The Sahel The Tuareg Insurgency In Mali written by Kalifa Keita and has been published by DIANE Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022 with categories.
Rethinking Insurgency
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Author : Steven Metz
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007-06-30
Rethinking Insurgency written by Steven Metz and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-06-30 with categories.
The September 11, 2001, attacks and Operations ENDURING FREEDOM and IRAQI FREEDOM revived the idea that insurgency is a significant threat to the United States. In response, the American military and defense communities began to rethink insurgency. Much of this valuable work, though, viewed contemporary insurgency as more closely related to Cold War era insurgencies than to the complex conflicts which characterized the post-Cold War period. This suggests that the most basic way that the military and defense communities think about insurgency must be rethought. Contemporary insurgency has a different strategic context, structure, and dynamics than its forebears. Insurgencies tend to be nested in complex conflicts which involve what can be called third forces (armed groups which affect the outcome, such as militias) and fourth forces (unarmed groups which affect the outcome, such as international media), as well as the insurgents and the regime. Because of globalization, the decline of overt state sponsorship of insurgency, the continuing importance of informal outside sponsorship, and the nesting of insurgency within complex conflicts associated with state weakness or failure, the dynamics of contemporary insurgency are more like a violent and competitive market than war in the traditional sense where clear and discrete combatants seek strategic victory. This suggests a very different way of thinking about (and undertaking) counterinsurgency. At the strategic level, the risk to the United States is not that insurgents will Swin in the traditional sense, take over their country, and shift it from a partner to an enemy.It is that complex internal conflicts, especially ones involving insurgency, will generate other adverse effects: the destabilization of regions, resource flows, and markets; the blossoming of transnational crime; humanitarian disasters; transnational terrorism; and so forth. Given this, the U.S. goal should not automatically be the defeat of the insurgents by the regime (which may be impossible and which the regime may not even want), but the most rapid conflict resolution possible. In other words, a quick and sustainable resolution which integrates insurgents into the national power structure is less damaging to U.S. national interests than a protracted conflict which leads to the complete destruction of the insurgents. Protracted conflict, not insurgent victory, is the threat. If, in fact, insurgency is not simply a variant of war, if the real threat is the deleterious effects of sustained conflict, and if it is part of systemic failure and pathology in which key elites and organizations develop a vested interest in sustaining the conflict, the objective of counterinsurgency support should not be simply strengthening the government so that it can impose its will more effectively on the insurgents, but systemic reengineering. This, in turn, implies that the most effective posture for outsiders is not to be an ally of the government and thus a sustainer of the flawed socio-political-economic system, but to be neutral mediators and peacekeepers (even when the outsiders have much more ideological affinity for the regime than for the insurgents). If this is true, the United States should only undertake counterinsurgency support in the most pressing instances and as part of an equitable, legitimate, and broad-based multinational coalition.
Insurgencies And Counterinsurgencies
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Author : Beatrice Heuser
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2017-01-05
Insurgencies And Counterinsurgencies written by Beatrice Heuser and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-05 with History categories.
A study of the evolving 'national styles' of conducting insurgencies and counter-insurgency, as influenced by transnational trends, ideas and practices.
Insurgencies In North East India
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Author : Gautam Das
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
Insurgencies In North East India written by Gautam Das and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Political Science categories.
Explores the current status of this national problem in parliamentarians, officers and officials of the government of India, and residents of the North-Eastern (NE) States. The author, combining extensive practical experience with research and scholarship, considers the NE insurgencies within the larger context of the Indian constitution.