Doctrine of Eternal Recurrence--The U.S. Military and Counterinsurgency Doctrine, 1960-1970 and 2003-2006 RAND Counterinsurgency Study--Paper 6

• Main Author: Long, Austin (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: RAND Corporation 2008
• Subjects: Personnel & human resources management; Warfare & defence; Political control & freedoms; Political Science; Management & Organizational Behavior
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

By comparing modern counterinsurgency doctrine and operations to those of 1960s, this paper tests and ultimately disproves the assumption that doctrine as written and operations as conducted are tightly linked. Ingrained organizational concepts and beliefs have a much greater influence on operations...