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Fighting the Mujahideen: Lessons from the Soviet Counter-Insurgency Experience if Afghanistan [PDF]
, 2012 The Canadian Forces currently in Afghanistan as part of a NATO coalition are playing a major role in a counter-insurgency campaign directed against a resurgent Taliban threat.
Balasevicius, Tony, Smith, Greg
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The Ethics Of Unwinnable War [PDF]
, 2017 According to just war theory, military campaigns should only be fought as a last resort, with the goal of correcting a grave evil, and where there is a high probability of success. But what happens when a military campaign unravels and becomes unwinnable?
Tierney, Dominic
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Journal of Traumatic Stress, EarlyView.Abstract This qualitative study examined the dialectical association between psychosocial trauma and political conscientization in the lives of activists advocating for persons with marginalized sexual orientations and gender identities (2SLGBTQIA+) in São José dos Campos, Brazil.
Gab C. Siqueira +2 more
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Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article analyzes the Taliban's post‐2021 governance model through the Islamic Public Administration (IPA) framework, focusing on justice, equality, and women's inclusion. It asks: (1) How does the Taliban's governance align with core IPA principles?
Parwiz Mosamim +1 more
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Introduction: case studies in colonial counter-insurgency [PDF]
, 2015 This issue of the journal is dedicated to articles on the history of colonial counter-insurgency. The whole subject has become increasingly controversial, with interest in part sparked by the Western interventions in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Collins, Bruce
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Bacillus thuringiensis and its pest control potential as endophyte
Pest Management Science, EarlyView.Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) systemically colonizes tomato plants as endophyte, inducing midgut damage, fitness reduction and immune suppression in Spodoptera littoralis larvae feeding on Bt‐colonized leaves. The immune suppression enhances the susceptibility to Bt treatments, allowing a synergistic dual use of Bt commercial formulations, by combined ...
Maria Giovanna De Luca +8 more
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Beyond Judgements and Emotions
Journal of Central and Eastern European African StudiesSteve Crump: Koevoet: South West African Police Counter-Insurgency Operations During the South African Border War 1978 ...
László Pálfi
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Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT George Herbert Mead is an oft forgotten or ignored American philosopher who was one of the originators of pragmatism. Today, he is recognised as a creative thinker who has teased out knotty problems that others in the field had not realised were problems. Understanding Mead's analysis has been made difficult because he died prematurely without
Richard Ormerod
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Book review: Defending the realm? The politics of Britain’s small wars since 1945 [PDF]
, 2013 Britain is often revered for its extensive experience of waging ‘small wars’. Its long imperial history is littered with high profile counter-insurgency campaigns, thus marking it out as the world’s most seasoned practitioner of this type of warfare.
Holt, Andrew
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Insurgency, Counter-Insurgency and Human Rights Violations in Nigeria
Age of Human Rights Journal, 2014 Insurgents’ activities and government’s counter-insurgency operations have claimed hundreds of lives and destroyed many human habitations and sources of livelihoods across Nigeria.
Afeno Super Odomovo
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