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Philosophy Compass, Volume 21, Issue 2, March/April 2026.ABSTRACT This article introduces Black Male Studies as a distinct empirically grounded field of inquiry developed to explain the systematic dehumanization, sexualization, and lethal targeting of Black men and boys within Western societies and racialized males more generally.
Tommy J. Curry
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COIN is dead - long live transformation [PDF]
, 2012 Donald Rumsfeld was right. Force transformation works. The techniques that led to the initial victories in Afghanistan in 2001 were precisely those that produced success in Libya in 2011.1 Small-scale deployments of special forces backed by precision ...
Body, Howard +2 more
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Countering Insurgency and the Myth of “The Cause”
Journal of Strategic Security, 2015 It is possible for an insurgency to develop from a single cause, for the insurgents to identify and communicate this unifying cause to the population, and for the insurgents to remain steadfastly focused even as counterinsurgents undermine their ...
Daniel G. Cox, Alex Ryan
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The Afghan Local Police – Closing the Security Gap?
Stability : International Journal of Security and Development, 2015 The Afghan Local Police (ALP) was designed as an international counterinsurgency programme that works by raising small, village-level defence forces from within rural Afghan communities.
Sam Vincent +2 more
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‘The “Bowl of Jelly”: The Department of State in the Kennedy and Johnson Years, 1961-68’, [PDF]
, 2015 The article explores efforts to reform the State Department under presidents Kennedy and Johnson, with the intention of making the Department better able to lead and coordinate the sprawling foreign policy apparatus. However, Kennedy soon gave up on what
Colman, Jonathan
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The 3Ds (development, diplomacy, and defense) in Nigerian counterinsurgency: lessons from Uruzgan
Frontiers in Political ScienceIntroductionCounterinsurgency (COIN) operations necessitate a multifaceted approach that considers political, economic, developmental, and security factors in order to achieve long-term peace and security.
James Ojochenemi David
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SOME POSSIBILITIES IN COUNTERINSURGENCY OPERATIONS
Scientia Militaria, 2012 It is often held that there can be no 'military' solution to an insurgency. As a general rule this is probably true but it is rather dependant on what is understood by terms 'insurgency', 'solution' and 'military'.
H.R Heitman
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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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“No a la contaMINAción”. Counter-insurgency in the Tia Maria copper mining project (Peru)
Encrucijadas: Revista Crítica de Ciencias Sociales, 2022 The aim of this paper is to analyse the top-down political reactions of a mining company (Southern Copper Peru) and the Peruvian government to popular opposition to a copper mining project in the Tambo agricultural valley (Peru).
Alexander Dunlap +1 more
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Lessons from Social Psychology for Complex Operations [PDF]
, 2012 This short essay looks at several social forces that powerfully affect human behavior, often trumping individual “character,” personality, knowledge, and even deeply held moral beliefs.
Brooks, Rosa
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