South Sudan: You Can Lead a Horse to Water, but You Cannot Make It Drink

Abstract

With the splintering of the Sudan Peoples Liberation Movement-in-Opposition (SPLM-IO), the South Sudanese civil war is becoming worse, not better. The paper examines the socio-economic root causes of the civil war in South Sudan and identifies two: strong familial ties and a proclivity for violence as the best means for security. The central argument of this paper is that President Kiir's government needs to change its counterinsurgency (COIN) strategy from being enemy-centric to population-centric. In support of this strategy shift, this paper proposes that the US government influence the government of South Sudan (GoSS) using a whole of government (D-I-M-E model) approach.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 07, 2018
Accession Number
AD1062003

Entities

People

  • Erwin J. Wunderlich

Organizations

  • Naval War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Agreements
  • Civil War
  • Counterinsurgency
  • Department Of State
  • Doctrine
  • Failed States
  • Governments
  • International Relations
  • National Politics
  • New York
  • Political Systems
  • Security
  • Terrorists
  • United Nations
  • United States
  • Violence
  • War

Fields of Study

  • Political science
  • Sociology

Readers

  • Asian Economic Studies
  • Military and Counterinsurgency Studies.