Reconstruction under fire : unifying civil and military counterinsurgency / David C. Gompert [and others].

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TextSeries: Rand Corporation monograph seriesPublication details: Santa Monica, Calif. : RAND, 2009.Description: 1 online resource (xxvi, 131 pages) : illustrations (some color), color mapsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9780833047632
0833047639

Report number: AD-A503 313Other title:

Unifying civil and military counterinsurgency

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Reconstruction under fire.DDC classification:

355.02/18 22

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U241 .R42 2009

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Contents:

Introduction -- Three Cases -- Integrated Analysis, Integrated Approach -- Security Requirements -- Conclusions.

Summary: It is widely agreed that effective civilian relief, reconstruction, and development work can help convince people to support their government against insurgency. Knowing this, insurgents will target such work, threatening both those who perform it and those who benefit from it. Too often, the result is a postponement of efforts to improve government and serve the population until contested territory has been cleared of insurgents. This can lead to excessive reliance on force to defeat insurgents - at best, delaying and, at worst, preventing success. Unsatisfied with this general state of affairs, a RAND team with combined security and development expertise set out to learn how 'civilian counterinsurgency' (civil COIN) could be conducted more safely in the face of active insurgency, when it can do the most good.

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Introduction -- Three Cases -- Integrated Analysis, Integrated Approach -- Security Requirements -- Conclusions.

It is widely agreed that effective civilian relief, reconstruction, and development work can help convince people to support their government against insurgency. Knowing this, insurgents will target such work, threatening both those who perform it and those who benefit from it. Too often, the result is a postponement of efforts to improve government and serve the population until contested territory has been cleared of insurgents. This can lead to excessive reliance on force to defeat insurgents - at best, delaying and, at worst, preventing success. Unsatisfied with this general state of affairs, a RAND team with combined security and development expertise set out to learn how 'civilian counterinsurgency' (civil COIN) could be conducted more safely in the face of active insurgency, when it can do the most good.

"The research described in this report was prepared for the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD). The research was conducted in the RAND National Defense Research Institute, a federally funded research and development center sponsored by the OSD, the Joint Staff, the Unified Combatant Commands, the Department of the Navy, the Marine Corps, the defense agencies, and the defense Intelligence Community under Contract W74V8H-06-C-0002"--Page [ii].

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