Irregular Warfare: One Nature, Many Characters

Abstract

This paper is organized to pose and answer four central questions: 1. What is the nature of irregular warfare, and how does it differ from regular warfare? 2. Why do regular forces have great difficulty waging irregular warfare effectively? 3. Is COIN winnable by regulars? 4. What are the leading fashionable errors about irregular warfare? This agenda should suffice to stir the needful opinion, expertise, and prejudice.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2007
Accession Number
ADA515561

Entities

People

  • Colin S. Gray

Organizations

  • University of Reading

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Asymmetric Warfare
  • Combat Areas
  • Contingency Operations (Military)
  • Doctrine
  • International Relations
  • Military Operations
  • Military Organizations
  • Military Science
  • National Security
  • North America
  • Personality
  • Security
  • Standards
  • United States
  • War
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Educational Psychology
  • Irregular Warfare and Special Operations Cyberspace Operations against Adversarial Threats.