Victory Has a Thousand Fathers Sources of Success in Counterinsurgency

• Main Author: Paul, Christopher (auth)
• Other Authors: Clarke, Colin P. (auth), Grill, Beth (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: RAND Corporation 2010
• Subjects: International relations; Warfare & defence; Development studies; Political Science; Sociology
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Insurgency is the most prevalent form of armed conflict and the subject of countless studies, yet the U.S. military has only recently begun to review doctrine and training in this area. An examination of approaches to counterinsurgency from 30 recent resolved campaigns reveals, for example, that goo...