On "other war" : lessons from five decades of RAND counterinsurgency research / / Austin Long
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Long Austin
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| Titolo: |
On "other war" : lessons from five decades of RAND counterinsurgency research / / Austin Long
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| Pubblicazione: | Santa Monica, CA, : RAND, National Defense Research Institute, 2006 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (120 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 355.02/18 |
| Soggetto topico: | Counterinsurgency |
| Note generali: | "Prepared for the Office of the Secretary of Defense." |
| "MG-482-OSD"--P. [4] of cover. | |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 85-101). |
| Nota di contenuto: | Preface; Contents; Figures; Summary; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; CHAPTER ONE- Introduction; CHAPTER TWO- The Wizards of Less-Than-Armageddon: RAND and COIN; CHAPTER THREE- Analogies and War: Are Theory and Empirics from Prior COIN Relevant?; CHAPTER FOUR- COIN Theory: What Are Insurgencies and How Does One Fight Them?; "Hearts and Minds" Theory: COIN as a Problem of Modernization; Cost/Benefit Theory: Carrots and Sticks for the Rational Peasant; Critiques of Cost/Benefit: Ratcheted Escalation and Marginal Costs; Moving COIN Theory Forward: Is Synthesis Possible? |
| CHAPTER FIVE- The Social Scientists' Wars: RAND and COIN Practice Indicators in COIN; COIN Organization; Amnesty and Reward: Catching More Flies with Honey; Border Security: Morice and McNamara: A Tale of Two Lines; Pacification: All Politics Is Local; CHAPTER SIX- COIN Old and New; Organizing for COIN: Breaking the Interagency Phalanx; Open Arms, Open Wallets: Amnesty and Reward; The Khalilzad Lines? Border Security in Iraq and Afghanistan; An End to Streets Without Joy: Security, Development,and Pacification; Conclusion: Back to the Future? | |
| APPENDIX- RAND Counterinsurgency Publications,1955-1995: Selected Annotated Bibliography References | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | The term "other war" arose in Vietnam to differentiate pacification operations from the "real war" of conventional search-and-destroy operations. On "Other War" provides an invaluable aid to understanding and developing successful responses to modern counterinsurgency challenges through the lens of experience. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | On "other war" |
| ISBN: | 0-8330-4110-X |
| 1-4337-0958-9 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910220135203321 |
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