Counterinsurgency Scorecard Afghanistan in Early 2011 Relative to the Insurgencies of the Past 30 Years

• Main Author: Paul, Christopher (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: RAND Corporation 2011
• Subjects: Database design & theory; Warfare & defence; Military engineering; Technology; Political Science
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

A core finding of previous RAND research on 30 years of insurgencies worldwide was that a conflict's overall score on a scorecard of 15 equally weighted good and 12 equally weighted bad counterinsurgency factors and practices perfectly predicted the ultimate outcome. Using the scorecard approac...