COIN Modeling: An MDMP Technique for planning Counter-Insurgency Campaigns

Abstract

This monograph argues that the UEX planner must broaden the MDMP in order to make it an effective COIN planning process. The MDMP was designed as a planning process for conventional operations. It is, therefore, focused on planning conventional operations leading to the defeat of the enemy in battle. Successful COIN operations do not necessarily lead to a decisive battle, but successfully isolate the insurgent from his sources of power. Therefore, an effective COIN planning process must be comprehensive enough to address the military and non-military conditions that sustain the insurgency. This requires the planners to understand the critical aspects of the overall society and its key participants while developing logical lines of operations to achieve the desired endstate. This monograph recommends a modification to the MDMP in order to make it compatible with the realities of counter-insurgency warfare. The term coined here for the new planning technique is COIN Modeling.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 26, 2005
Accession Number
ADA435972

Entities

People

  • Samuel E. Hales

Organizations

  • United States Army Command and General Staff College

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Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • C4I
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Adaptive Systems
  • American Revolution
  • Civil War
  • Complex Adaptive Systems
  • Governments
  • Guerrilla Warfare
  • Human Intelligence
  • Military History
  • Military Operations
  • National Governments
  • National Politics
  • Recreation
  • Revolutions
  • Terrorists
  • United States
  • War Games
  • Warfare

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  • Irregular Warfare and Special Operations Cyberspace Operations against Adversarial Threats.
  • Joint Military Operations and Doctrine.