Gangs and Guerrillas: Ideas from Counterinsurgency and Counterterrorism

Abstract

In a discussion at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, it became apparent that there were many similarities between insurgent behavior and gang behavior - similarities that would make a more rigorous analysis worthwhile. With this theme in mind, the faculty of the Defense Analysis Department at the Naval Postgraduate School, experts in counterinsurgency and counterterrorism operations, were enlisted to address these similarities and to share their theories, models, and ideas from their own disciplines of political science, sociology, anthropology, international relations, and more. This collection of short papers is the result.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 2011
Accession Number
ADA541897

Entities

People

  • Hy Rothstein
  • Michael R Freeman

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • California
  • Families (Human)
  • Governments
  • Intelligence Collection
  • International Relations
  • Military Science
  • National Security
  • Organizational Structure
  • Political Science
  • Recreation
  • Social Media
  • Social Problems
  • Societies
  • Terrorism
  • Terrorists
  • United States
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Political Violence and Terrorism Studies.
  • STEM Education
  • Theoretical Analysis.