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  title info:
    title: Embracing the fog of war
    sub title: assessment and metrics in counterinsurgency
  name:
    name part: Connable, Ben
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: National Defense Research Institute (U.S.)
  name:
    name part: Rand Corporation
  name:
    name part: JSTOR (Organization)
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: cau
    date issued: 2012
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xxxi, 308 pages) : color illustrations, maps.
  abstract: Campaign assessments help decisionmakers in the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), Congress, and the executive branch shape what tend to be difficult and lengthy counterinsurgency (COIN) campaigns. Assessment informs critical decisions, including the allocation of resources and major shifts in strategy. The complex and chaotic environment of the typical COIN campaign presents vexing challenges to assessment, and efforts to overcome these challenges are mired in an overreliance on aggregated quantitative data that are often inaccurate and misleading. This comprehensive examination of COIN assessment as practiced through early 2011, as described in the literature and doctrine, and as applied in two primary case studies (Vietnam and Afghanistan), reveals weaknesses and gaps in this centralized, quantitative approach. The author proposes an alternative process -- contextual assessment -- that accounts for the realities of the COIN environment and the needs of both policymakers and commanders. Since this manuscript was completed in mid-2011, various elements of DoD have published new doctrine on assessment, some of which addresses criticisms raised in this report. The International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan has also revamped its assessment process.
  table of contents: Introduction -- Concepts that shape counterinsurgency assessment -- Centralized assessment theory and pattern and trend analysis -- The effects-based approach to assessment -- Choosing core metrics -- Vietnam-era assessment -- Assessment in Afghanistan -- Why does centralized assessment fail in counterinsurgency? -- Conclusions, recommendations, and options -- A proposed alternative to centralized assessment.
  note: Ben Connable.
  note: "Prepared for the U.S. Department of Defense."
  note: "National Defense Research Institute."
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-308).
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  subject:
    topic: Counterinsurgency
    topic: Evaluation
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY
    topic: Revolutionary
  subject:
    topic: POLITICAL SCIENCE
    topic: Intelligence & Espionage
  subject:
    topic: counterinsurgency
  classification: U241 .C63 2012eb online
  classification: 355.02/180973
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    name:
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    origin info:
      publisher: Santa Monica, CA : RAND, 2012
    identifier: (DLC) 2012001598
    identifier: (OCoLC)774021168
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      title: Rand Corporation monograph series
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    record creation date: 120416
    record change date: 20260612160931.6
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    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng