On "other war" : lessons from five decades of RAND counterinsurgency research /
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Language: | English |
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Santa Monica, CA :
RAND, National Defense Research Institute,
2006.
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Online Access: | http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=197667 |
Table of Contents:
- ""Preface""; ""Contents""; ""Figures""; ""Summary""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Abbreviations""; ""Introduction""; ""The Wizards of Less- Than-Armageddon: RAND and COIN""; ""Analogies and War: Are Theory and Empirics from Prior COIN Relevant?""; ""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?""
- ""The Social Scientists� Wars: RAND and COIN Practice""""Organization and COIN: Who Does What and How Would One Know?""; ""Amnesty and Reward: Catching More Flies with Honey""; ""Border Security: Morice and McNamara: A Tale of Two Lines""; ""Pacification: All Politics Is Local""; ""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?""