Leading Counterinsurgency Effectively

Abstract

The United States (US) has been conducting operations in Afghanistan and Iraq since October 7, 2001 and March 19, 2003, respectfully. Since these operations began, the US and their allies have seen 4,747 casualties in Iraq and 2,232 casualties in Afghanistan, and their publics are tiring of their countries involvement in these conflicts. Despite former President Bush declaring the war over in Iraq on May 1, 2003, the US has been fighting a formidable insurgency there ever since, and they have been struggling with the insurgency in Afghanistan since they toppled the formal Taliban rule in October 2001. A factor common to both of these countries was that Foreign Policy categorized them as failing states prior to coalition involvement.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 2011
Accession Number
AD1019065

Entities

People

  • Matt Fehrman

Organizations

  • Air Command and Staff College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Civil War
  • Contingency Operations (Military)
  • Conventional Warfare
  • Governments
  • Human Behavior
  • International Organizations
  • International Security
  • Iraqi-War
  • Military Organizations
  • National Politics
  • Personality
  • Psychology
  • Second World War
  • Terrorists
  • United States
  • Warfare

Fields of Study

  • Political science

Readers

  • Government and Public Administration Law.
  • Political Violence and Terrorism Studies.