Counterinsurgency Scorecard Update Afghanistan in Early 2015 Relative to Insurgencies Since World War II

• Main Author: Paul, Christopher (auth)
• Other Authors: Clarke, Colin P. (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: RAND Corporation 2016
• Subjects: Database design & theory; Military history; Warfare & defence; Terrorism, armed struggle; Military engineering; Technology; Political Science; History
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

A key finding of previous RAND research on insurgencies worldwide since World War II was that an overall score on a scorecard of 15 equally weighted good and 11 equally weighted bad counterinsurgency factors and practices distinguished conflicts' historical outcomes. Using the scorecard approac...