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Author Paul, Christopher, 1971-

Title Victory has a thousand fathers : sources of success in counterinsurgency / Christopher Paul, Colin P. Clarke, Beth Grill.

Imprint Santa Monica, CA : RAND Corporation, c2010.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  355.0218 P281v 2010    ---  Available
Description xxx, 157 p. ; 23 cm.
Series Rand Corporation monograph series ; MG-964-OSD
Rand Corporation monograph series ; MG-964-OSD.
Note "Prepared for the Office of the Secretary of Defense."
Summary "This monograph describes the qualitative comparative approach, presents findings from the overall analyses, and explains the study's case selection and methodology. It also presents an overview and in-depth assessments of the key approaches, practices, and factors that feature prominentlyin successful COIN operations. A companion volume, Victory Has a Thousand Fathers: Detailed Counterinsurgency Case Studies, includes detailed case histories for each of the COIN campaigns examined in the analyses. The full case data can be downloaded at https://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG964.html ."--P. iii
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 147-152).
Contents Introduction -- The cases -- Testing the approaches to counterinsurgency -- Broader findings -- Conclusions and recommendations.
Form Also available via the Internet.
Subject Counterinsurgency -- Case studies.
Insurgency -- Case studies.
Added Author Clarke, Colin P.
Grill, Beth.
Rand Corporation.
National Defense Research Institute (U.S.)
Added Title Sources of success in counterinsurgency
ISBN 9780833049612
0833049615

 
    
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