Carrots And Sticks: Questions For Cocoms Who Must Leverage National Power In Counter Insurgency Warfare

Abstract

Due to substantial shortcomings in doctrine and organization, the United States military is challenged with successfully executing counter insurgency (CI) operations in Iraq. This paper argues that COCOMs do not frame and ask the correct questions when facing an insurgency mission, despite historical CI successes upon which to base such questions.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 09, 2004
Accession Number
ADA422759

Entities

People

  • Robert J. Molinari

Organizations

  • Naval War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Civic Action
  • Contingency Operations (Military)
  • Counterinsurgency
  • El Salvador
  • Employment
  • Governments
  • Insurgency
  • Iraqi-War
  • Military History
  • Military Operations
  • Military Organizations
  • National Politics
  • National Security
  • Psychological Operations
  • United States
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare

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  • Joint Military Operations and Doctrine.
  • Strategic Security Studies