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  2. David Galula - Wikipedia

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    Galula's Counterinsurgency Warfare: Theory and Practice is highly suggested reading for students of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College. [20] Galula's work on counter-insurgency is in large part based on the experiences and lesson of 130 years of French colonial warfare, most notably the work of Joseph-Simon Gallieni and Hubert ...

  3. Counterinsurgency - Wikipedia

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    Counterinsurgency (COIN, or NATO spelling counter-insurgency [1]) is "the totality of actions aimed at defeating irregular forces". [2] The Oxford English Dictionary defines counterinsurgency as any "military or political action taken against the activities of guerrillas or revolutionaries" [3] and can be considered war by a state against a non-state adversary. [4]

  4. McCormick Magic Diamond - Wikipedia

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    A variety of models for understanding insurgency and planning the counterinsurgency (COIN) response have been developed. One model that has become respected both in academic and military context is the "Magic Diamond" model developed by Gordon McCormick of the RAND Corporation. [1]

  5. Applying a Counterinsurgency Strategy to the Drug Problem - AOL

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    In Afghanistan, he was a contractor, working on a wide range of issues that included counterinsurgency and counternarcotics work. Going from the apparent success of the surge to the apparently ...

  6. David Kilcullen - Wikipedia

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    David John Kilcullen FRGS (born 1967) is an Australian author, strategist, and counterinsurgency expert and current president of the Cordillera Applications Group. . Previously he served as non-executive chairman of Caerus Associates, a strategy and design consulting firm that he

  7. Insurgency - Wikipedia

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    Nigerian Army counterinsurgency forces demonstrating tactics used against Boko Haram, 2016. Before one counters an insurgency, one must understand what one is countering. Typically the most successful counter-insurgencies have been the British in the Malay Emergency [47] and the Filipino government's countering of the Huk Rebellion.

  8. What would it take to win a counterinsurgency war in Gaza? - AOL

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    Scripps News hears from lawmakers, former Israeli officials and combat experts about the difficulties and costs of fighting an urban war.

  9. Project Camelot - Wikipedia

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    Project Camelot was the code name of a counterinsurgency study begun by the United States Army in 1964. The full name of the project was Methods for Predicting and Influencing Social Change and Internal War Potential. [ 1 ]