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Private Military Companies in Counterinsurgency: Discussion about Erik Prince´s Concepts
Obrana a Strategie, 2018 This text deals with the analysis of private military companies as an counterinsurgency actor in Afghanistan from the point of view of Erik Prince's proposal and application to the theory of David Kilcullen.
Dominik Plávka
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The Influence of War upon International Relations [PDF]
Codrul Cosminului, 2019 Sir Lawrence Freedman, a member of the British Academy and Emeritus Professor of war studies at King’s College in London, analyses the evolution of the most representative conceptions of war in Europe and the United States, from the last quarter of the ...
Florin Pintescu
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In the Name of Poppy: Eradication and Counterinsurgency in Southern Mexico
Journal of Illicit Economies and Development, 2022 This paper seeks to demonstrate that, in Mexico, the policy of eradication of poppy crops has not only been motivated by its official reason, the anti-drug fight, but also been instrumentalized for the militarization of certain regions for ...
Irene Alvarez +2 more
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PKK/KCK INSURGENCY IN TURKEY IN 2015-2016
Obrana a Strategie, 2020 The text focuses on the PKK/KCK insurgency in Turkey in 2015-2016. Besides the description of the course of the conflict, the article provides a detailed picture of the urban warfare in southeast Turkey during the selected period.
Matúš Jevčák
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Decolonization and the Cold War
Journal of Global Strategic Studies, 2023 Throughout the Cold War era, the United States and the Soviet Union frequently faced the dilemma of whether to recognize or to confer legitimacy upon armed insurgencies vying to overturn established civil authority.
Robert McMahon
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Scientia Militaria, 2012 During the fifties and the sixties of this century counter insurgency was largely in Western hands. The eighties, however, seem to be the age of Soviet counter insurgency.
T.D. Potgieter
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Armed Movements and Counterinsurgency in Contemporary Mexico
Partecipazione e Conflitto, 2020 Based on a case study, this article seeks to analyze the contemporary evolution of the armed movements in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero and the counterinsurgency operations they have faced.
Pierre Gaussens
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Still Shortchanged: Some Observations About the New Army/Marine Corps COIN Doctrine [PDF]
, 2014 Evaluation of complex systems is as necessary now as ever.To conduct a successful evaluation, in other words an evaluationthat shows something interesting and perhaps unknownabout the system, one should be structured and planwell.
Dunlap, Charles J., Jr.
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RUDN Journal of Political Science, 2019 Since 2013, the north of Nigeria has witnessed an increased involvement of the militia group ‘Civilian Joint Task Force’ (CJTF) in combating the Islamist insurgent group Boko Haram.
Modu Lawan Gana
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The agrarian question and violence in Colombia: conflict and development [PDF]
, 2011 This article examines connections between Colombia’s internal armed conflict and agrarian questions. It pays attention to the country’s specific historical trajectory of agrarian change, the violent expression of social tensions that this elicited, and ...
Akram-Lodhi +55 more
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