Interdicting Pakistani Cross Border Sanctuary

Abstract

This research paper seeks to address the operational plans and employment methods necessary to fulfill the stated U.S. policy objectives of disrupting, dismantling, and defeating insurgents within Afghanistan and Pakistan. This paper focuses on ISAF's RC-East (International Security Assistance Force's Regional Command East) that not only contains the bulk of U.S. military forces in Afghanistan but borders the most relevant insurgent areas in neighboring Pakistan, the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA). This paper broadly reviews factors that have contributed to the insurgents' use of the FATA as a sanctuary; namely, historical semi-autonomous governance, influx of Afghan refugees and Mujahedeen basing during the Soviet-Afghan war, and economic sociopolitical disparity between the area and other regions of Pakistan. Following an examination of the FATAs characteristics the paper describes the prominent FATA based insurgencies. In order to defeat insurgents in Afghanistan, CJTF-101 must degrade the use of the FATA as an insurgent sanctuary by conducting covert operations and population security operations.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 04, 2009
Accession Number
ADA503094

Entities

People

  • Caleb N. Risinger

Organizations

  • Naval War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Biomedical
  • C4I
  • Human Systems
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Afghanistan
  • Asia
  • Central Asia
  • Covert Operations
  • Employment
  • Governments
  • Insurgency
  • International Conflicts
  • Military Operations
  • New York
  • Security
  • Southeast Asia
  • Soviet-Afghan War
  • Terrorism
  • Terrorists
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare

Fields of Study

  • Sociology

Readers

  • Economics
  • Military and Counterinsurgency Studies.