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Insects as disease vectors: Historical and contemporary analysis of entomological warfare. [PDF]

open access: yesAmbio
Khalil A   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Counterinsurgency

The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology, 2018
Looking at the rise and decline of counterinsurgency between 2003 and 2017, this chapter seeks to assess its impact at the level of strategy, doctrine, and military structures within a number of European armed forces. The chapter finds that European states have engaged in counterinsurgency operations in quite varying ways and also extracted rather ...
Robert Egnell, Bruno Cardoso Reis
semanticscholar   +3 more sources

Rwanda’s War in Mozambique: Road-Testing a Kigali Principles approach to counterinsurgency?

Small Wars & Insurgencies, 2023
Rwandan military behavior in Mozambique operationalizes Kigali’s rhetorical commitment to aggressively defend endangered civilians. The counterinsurgency doctrine applied in Cabo Delgado balances insurgent pursuit and civilian protection through a ...
Ralph Shield
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Multinational Joint Task Force’s counterinsurgency in the Lake Chad Basin and the consequences of Chadian exit for the Northeast, Nigeria

Small Wars & Insurgencies, 2023
The Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF), comprising soldiers from the Lake Chad Basin countries (Cameroon, Chad, Niger, Nigeria, and Benin), has been countering insurgency in the region since 2015.
Nsemba Edward Lenshie   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Counterinsurgency as fad: America’s rushed engagement with irregular warfare

The Journal of Strategic Studies, 2023
The counterinsurgency era that dominated American military discussion post-9/11 has passed. The desire to move on, particularly since the loss of Afghanistan in August 2021, has left unsettled a conversation on counterinsurgency that, both among ...
T. Marks, David H. Ucko
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Boko Haram, security architecture and counterinsurgency in North-East, Nigeria

Armed Forces & Society, 2022
While previous studies have interrogated the motivations of Boko Haram and the role of security agencies in counterinsurgency, explanations of the escalation of Boko Haram attacks on Nigerian security agencies have received limited academic attention ...
Nsemba Edward Lenshie   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

“Global counterinsurgency and the police-military continuum: introduction to the special issue”

Small Wars & Insurgencies, 2022
This introduction to the special issue ”Global Counterinsurgency and the Police-Military Continuum” examines the emergence of global counterinsurgency in the twentieth century and introduces the critical concept of the police-military continuum.
S. Schrader
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The Efficacy of Airpower in Counterinsurgency

Security Studies, 2022
Since 2001, the United States has relied upon air strikes in its global counterterrorism campaign against insurgencies throughout the world. With advances in air strike technology, public opinion growing increasingly intolerant of deployments of ground ...
Christopher Newton, Colin Tucker
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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