LEADER 02275oam 2200241z- 450 001 9910163210003321 005 20230906203136.0 010 $a1-78289-602-3 035 $a(CKB)3710000001046222 035 $a(BIP)058039555 035 $a(VLeBooks)9781782896029 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001046222 100 $a20220510c2014uuuu -u- - 101 0 $aeng 200 $a"Putting Out The Fire In Afghanistan" 210 $cPickle Partners Publishing 215 $a1 online resource (87 p.) 330 8 $aThis monograph develops an alternative approach to counterinsurgency, and explains how the current narratives in the field of counterinsurgency are not completely accurate. Counterinsurgents only need to properly understand the environment and then concentrate their efforts in that critical area of the insurgency identified as the sustainer of that insurgency. The U.S. counterinsurgency (COIN) plan does not need to address all those lines of effort not directly related to the root cause of an insurgency, as those efforts may actually fuel the insurgency due to building unrealistic expectations among the populace.This monograph also develops the analogy that the four elements necessary for a fire (fuel, oxygen, heat, chain reaction) parallel the necessary elements of an insurgency (the fuel representing unresponsive government, oxygen representing existing structures/vulnerability, heat representing political/diplomatic factors, chain reaction representing the information environment, and the population). Like a fire, if one has a proper understanding of the environment, and can clearly identify the true sustainer of the insurgency (the root problem), then one only need to remove that one element from the equation, and that insurgency will be unsustainable.Having a simple approach will not only allow the counterinsurgents to better utilize their resources-in an Economy of Force-and allow them to Mass their power on one clear Objective, it will also remind counterinsurgents of the other Principle of War that has proven to be so critical in complex environments-simplicity. 700 $aPascall$b Major Patrick$01744634 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910163210003321 996 $a"Putting Out The Fire In Afghanistan"$94174752 997 $aUNINA