Download or read book The Interagency and Counterinsurgency Warfare written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Interagency and Counterinsurgency Warfare written by Joseph R. Cerami and published by Strategic Studies Institute. This book was released on 2007 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For decades since the formation of the defense establishment under the 1947 National Security Act, all U.S. cabinet departments, national security agencies, and military services involved in providing for the common defense have struggled to overcome differences in policy and strategy formulation, organizational cultures, and even basic terminology. Post-September 11, 2001, international systems, security environments, U.S. military campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the greater Global War on Terrorism have confronted civilian policymakers and senior military officers with a complex, fluid battlefield which demands kinetic and counterinsurgency capabilities. This monograph addresses the security, stability, transition, and reconstruction missions that place the most pressure on interagency communication and coordination. The results from Kabul to Baghdad reveal that the interagency process is in need of reform and that a more robust effort to integrate and align civilian and military elements is a prerequisite for success.
Download or read book The Interagency and Counterinsurgency Warfare written by Joseph R. Cerami and published by War College Series. This book was released on 2015-02-23 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a curated and comprehensive collection of the most important works covering matters related to national security, diplomacy, defense, war, strategy, and tactics. The collection spans centuries of thought and experience, and includes the latest analysis of international threats, both conventional and asymmetric. It also includes riveting first person accounts of historic battles and wars. Some of the books in this Series are reproductions of historical works preserved by some of the leading libraries in the world. As with any reproduction of a historical artifact, some of these books contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. We believe these books are essential to this collection and the study of war, and have therefore brought them back into print, despite these imperfections. We hope you enjoy the unmatched breadth and depth of this collection, from the historical to the just-published works.
Download or read book Interagency and Counterinsurgency Warfare written by Jay Boggs and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book INTERAGENCY AND COUNTERINSURGENCY WARFARE STABILITY SECURITY TRANSITION AND RECONSTRUCTION ROLES written by and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Counter Insurgency Warfare written by Michael Scott McBride and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Current operations in Afghanistan and Iraq are indicators that the Army will be required to conduct counter-insurgency, stability, and reconstruction operations for the foreseeable future. National Security Presidential Directive-44 and Department of Defense Directive 3000.05, both issued in December 2005, recognize the importance and issue guidance for improving the U.S. Government's ability to prosecute security, stability, transition, and reconstruction operations as a joint interagency team. In light of these directives and current realities, how can we best implement them to accomplish our strategic objectives? How can the intent of these directives most effectively be implemented at the operational and tactical level, where the roots of strategic success are planted, in the short and long term? The multi-national and interagency nature of these operations requires careful review of the organizational structure, training, and command relationships to achieve a coordinated effort. The Army's individual, leader, and collective training must prepare soldiers, leaders, and units to operate effectively as small units in a decentralized environment.
Download or read book How We Can Win the Long War written by Dawn W. Watts and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This study evaluates the current interagency approach using successful counterinsurgent principles in David Galula's well respected book, Counterinsurgency Warfare Theory and Practice. This report reveals at the strategic level of the USG, the lack of an interagency doctrine and a single authorizative entity to implementation strategy. In addition, it finds that confusion at the regional level of USG leads to a lack of synchonization of effort which endangers the successful accomplish of the Global War on Terrorism. This study uses the problem/solution format to recommend the following solutions. First, the interagency should establish and promugate a doctrine that all departments must follow. The military has shown that a joint doctrine is essential to integrated operations and interoperability. Also, at the regional level where the major interagency players have divided the world into different regional area thus have differing regional priorities, duplication of effort, and conflicting advice to national leadership; the DOD should be tasked to be the regional sychonizer by converting the current regional Geographic Combatant Commands into Georgraphic Interagency Commands (GIC) that incorporate all the interagency players in a regoinal organization with one boss and one coordinated mission similar to AFRICOM but more robust with National Security Council, Defense Department, State Department, and Central Intelligence Agency personnel given regional authority and power to successfully perform the GWOT mission."--Abstract.
Download or read book Irregular Warfare and Stability Operations written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in the 21st Century Reconceptualizing Threat and Response written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Insurgency has existed throughout history but ebbed and flowed in strategic significance. Today the world has entered another period when insurgency is common and strategically significant. This is likely to continue for at least a decade, perhaps longer. As the United States confronts this threat, extrapolating old ideas, strategies, doctrine, and operational concepts is a recipe for ineffectiveness. Reconceptualization is needed. The strategic salience of insurgency for the United States is higher than it has been since the height of the Cold War. But insurgency remains challenging for the United States because two of its dominant characteristics--protractedness and ambiguity-- mitigate the effectiveness of the American military. Furthermore, the broader U.S. national security organization is not optimized for counterinsurgency support. Ultimately, a nation is only as good at counterinsurgency support as its weakest link, not its strongest. Existing American strategy and doctrine focus on national insurgencies rather than liberation ones. As a result, the strategy stresses selective engagement; formation of a support coalition if possible; keeping the American presence to a minimum level to attain strategic objectives; augmenting the regime's military, intelligence, political, informational, and economic capabilities; and, encouraging and shaping reform by the regime designed to address shortcomings and the root causes of the insurgency. The key to success is not for the U.S. military to become better at counterinsurgency, but for the U.S. military (and other elements of the government) to be skilled at helping local security and intelligence forces become effective at it.
Download or read book Counterinsurgency and the Global War on Terror written by Robert M. Cassidy and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2006-04-30 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since September 2001, the United States has waged what the government initially called the global war on terrorism (GWOT). Beginning in late 2005 and early 2006, the term Long War began to appear in U.S. security documents such as the National Security Council's National Strategy for Victory in Iraq and in statements by the U.S. Secretary of Defense and the Chairman of the JCS. The description Long War—unlimited in time and space and continuing for decades—is closer to reality and more useful than GWOT. Colonel Robert Cassidy argues that this protracted struggle is more correctly viewed as a global insurgency and counterinsurgency. Al Qaeda and its affiliates, he maintains, comprise a novel and evolving form of networked insurgents who operate globally, harnessing the advantages of globalization and the information age. They employ terrorism as a tactic, subsuming terror within their overarching aim of undermining the Western-dominated system of states. Placing the war against al Qaeda and its allied groups and organizations in the context of a global insurgency has vital implications for doctrine, interagency coordination, and military cultural change-all reviewed in this important work. Cassidy combines the foremost maxims of the most prominent Western philosopher of war and the most renowned Eastern philosopher of war to arrive at a threefold theme: know the enemy, know yourself, and know what kind of war you are embarking upon. To help readers arrive at that understanding, he first offers a distilled analysis of al Qaeda and its associated networks, with a particular focus on ideology and culture. In subsequent chapters, he elucidates the challenges big powers face when they prosecute counterinsurgencies, using historical examples from Russian, American, British, and French counterinsurgent wars before 2001. The book concludes with recommendations for the integration and command and control of indigenous forces and other agencies.
Download or read book The Commander s Emergency Response Program in Counterinsurgency Warfare written by Andy Brosnan and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Counterinsurgency in Crisis written by Robert Egnell and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long considered the masters of counterinsurgency, the British military encountered significant problems in Iraq and Afghanistan when confronted with insurgent violence. In their effort to apply the principles and doctrines of past campaigns, they failed to prevent Basra and Helmand from descending into lawlessness, criminality, and violence. By juxtaposing the deterioration of these situations against Britain's celebrated legacy of counterinsurgency, this investigation identifies both the contributions and limitations of traditional tactics in such settings, exposing a disconcerting gap between ambitions and resources, intent and commitment. Building upon this detailed account of the Basra and Helmand campaigns, this volume conducts an unprecedented assessment of British military institutional adaptation in response to operations gone awry. In calling attention to the enduring effectiveness of insurgent methods and the threat posed by undergoverned spaces, David H. Ucko and Robert Egnell underscore the need for military organizations to meet the irregular challenges of future wars in new ways.
Download or read book Counterinsurgency Warfare written by David Galula and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2006 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A template for the defeat of insurgents seeks to define the laws of counterinsurgency warfare, discuss its principles, and outline the corresponding strategy and tactics.
Download or read book Counterinsurgency and the Global War on Terror written by Robert M. Cassidy and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2006-04-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since September 2001, the United States has waged what the government initially called the global war on terrorism (GWOT). Beginning in late 2005 and early 2006, the term Long War began to appear in U.S. security documents such as the National Security Council's National Strategy for Victory in Iraq and in statements by the U.S. Secretary of Defense and the Chairman of the JCS. The description Long War—unlimited in time and space and continuing for decades—is closer to reality and more useful than GWOT. Colonel Robert Cassidy argues that this protracted struggle is more correctly viewed as a global insurgency and counterinsurgency. Al Qaeda and its affiliates, he maintains, comprise a novel and evolving form of networked insurgents who operate globally, harnessing the advantages of globalization and the information age. They employ terrorism as a tactic, subsuming terror within their overarching aim of undermining the Western-dominated system of states. Placing the war against al Qaeda and its allied groups and organizations in the context of a global insurgency has vital implications for doctrine, interagency coordination, and military cultural change-all reviewed in this important work. Cassidy combines the foremost maxims of the most prominent Western philosopher of war and the most renowned Eastern philosopher of war to arrive at a threefold theme: know the enemy, know yourself, and know what kind of war you are embarking upon. To help readers arrive at that understanding, he first offers a distilled analysis of al Qaeda and its associated networks, with a particular focus on ideology and culture. In subsequent chapters, he elucidates the challenges big powers face when they prosecute counterinsurgencies, using historical examples from Russian, American, British, and French counterinsurgent wars before 2001. The book concludes with recommendations for the integration and command and control of indigenous forces and other agencies.
Download or read book Counterinsurgency Field Manual written by The U.S. Army Marine Corps and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-09-15 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the U.S. military invaded Iraq, it lacked a common understanding of the problems inherent in counterinsurgency campaigns. It had neither studied them, nor developed doctrine and tactics to deal with them. It is fair to say that in 2003, most Army officers knew more about the U.S. Civil War than they did about counterinsurgency. The U.S. Army / Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual was written to fill that void. The result of unprecedented collaboration among top U.S. military experts, scholars, and practitioners in the field, the manual espouses an approach to combat that emphasizes constant adaptation and learning, the importance of decentralized decision-making, the need to understand local politics and customs, and the key role of intelligence in winning the support of the population. The manual also emphasizes the paradoxical and often counterintuitive nature of counterinsurgency operations: sometimes the more you protect your forces, the less secure you are; sometimes the more force you use, the less effective it is; sometimes doing nothing is the best reaction. An new introduction by Sarah Sewall, director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, places the manual in critical and historical perspective, explaining the significance and potential impact of this revolutionary challenge to conventional U.S. military doctrine. An attempt by our military to redefine itself in the aftermath of 9/11 and the new world of international terrorism, The U.S. Army / Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual will play a vital role in American military campaigns for years to come. The University of Chicago Press will donate a portion of the proceeds from this book to the Fisher House Foundation, a private-public partnership that supports the families of America’s injured servicemen. To learn more about the Fisher House Foundation, visit www.fisherhouse.org.
Download or read book Collaborative Strategies for Effective Counterinsurgency Operations in Nigeria written by Emmanuel John Udenyi and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-07 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the 1960s, Nigeria has experienced one form of insurgency or the other with dire consequences for national security, to the extent that the country is said to suffer from multipolar insurgencies one from the Atlantic and the other from the Lake Chad axis. The book titled "Collaborative Strategies for Counter Insurgency in Nigeria" was inspired by the need to effectively counter terrorism and insurgency in Nigeria through collaborative measures by all stakeholders. It makes a strong and penetrating case for collaborative counterinsurgency in Nigeria. In addition, the book differentiated the terms collaboration, coordination and cooperation underlining the point that though these terms are often used interchangeably, but there are subtle differences among them. It argues forcefully that successful COIN is possible through harnessing the hard, soft, and smart powers available to the military and the nation in general. The book provides some strategies to enhance interagency collaboration in COIN operations in Nigeria. The motivation for writing this book comes from the desire to orchestrate greater synergy and collaboration among various security forces tasked to defeat insurgency in Nigeria. The author's quest towards contributing to intellectual discourse on COIN also informed his decision to put pen to paper to birth this book. The book took a prolonged period of research and consultations with relevant stakeholders. It is based on extensive review of both published and unpublished literature about counterinsurgency. I commend the book to diverse segments of readers such as military personnel, students of terrorism and insurgency, academics, and general readers because it provides a fresh and incisive perspective on approaches to improve interagency collaboration in COIN operations. The thoughts espoused in this book by the author will remain valid for all men of warfare as a reference material.
Download or read book U S Marines and Irregular Warfare 1898 2007 written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Product Description: Since the tragic events of 9/11 and the consequent advent of the Global War on Terrorism, there has been a remarkable surge of interest in counterinsurgency. This anthology presents 27 articles on counterinsurgency and irregular warfare, particularly highlighting and examining the U.S. Marine Corps' roles in conflicts from 1898 through 2007. It also includes an extensive bibliography of works on these conflicts. Continuing discussion and study of these subjects is of critical importance to the ongoing efforts of the United States and its allies in the Global War on Terrorism. The anthology is divided broadly into two halves: the first half presents historical examples of counterinsurgency involving the United States-from the Philippines and the "Banana Wars" up through Vietnam-while the second half addresses the nation's contemporary efforts in this regard. Articles cover the situations in Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Horn of Africa. The selected bibliography addresses a broad range of subjects: on higher-end operational/strategic level of war considerations, on geopolitical context, and on a varied array of related topics-political theory, historical case studies, failed states, cultural studies and analysis, and many others-that all provide context or play a role in conducting a counterinsurgency and achieving success in the realm of irregular warfare. Colonel Stephen S. Evans, USMCR, researched and compiled this work as a field historian with the Marine Corps History Division. He has experience at various operational levels, both joint and multinational, in CONUS and overseas, and has performed duty with all three MEFs, MARFORLANT, MARFOREUR, and U.S. forces in Korea. He has also held a range of positions in administrative and educational roles at Quantico and the Pentagon. Colonel Evans holds a doctorate in history from Temple University and has published two historical monographs.
