On "other war" : lessons from five decades of RAND counterinsurgency research /
The challenges posed by insurgency and instability have proved difficult to surmount. This difficulty may embolden future opponents to embrace insurgency in combating the United States. Both the current and future conduct of the war on terror demand that the United States improve its ability to cond...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Santa Monica, CA :
RAND, National Defense Research Institute,
2006.
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| Online Access: | Ebook Central Academic Complete |
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| Summary: | The challenges posed by insurgency and instability have proved difficult to surmount. This difficulty may embolden future opponents to embrace insurgency in combating the United States. Both the current and future conduct of the war on terror demand that the United States improve its ability to conduct counterinsurgency (COIN) operations. This study makes recommendations for improving COIN based on RAND's decades-long study of it. |
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| Item Description: | "Prepared for the Office of the Secretary of Defense." "MG-482-OSD"--Page 4 of cover. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvii, 101 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 85-101). |
| ISBN: | 9780833041104 083304110X 9780833041166 0833041169 |