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  title info:
    title: Paths to victory
    sub title: lessons from modern insurgencies
  name:
    name part: Paul, Christopher
    name part: 1971-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Clarke, Colin P.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Grill, Beth
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Dunigan, Molly
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: National Defense Research Institute (U.S.)
    role:
      role term: issuing body.
  name:
    name part: Rand Corporation
    role:
      role term: publisher.
  name:
    name part: JSTOR (Organization)
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Case studies.
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: cau
    date issued: 2013
    copyright date: 2013
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xlii, 286 pages) : illustrations (some color).
  abstract: When a country is threatened by an insurgency, what efforts give its government the best chance of prevailing? Contemporary discourse on this subject is voluminous and often contentious. Advice for the counterinsurgent is often based on little more than common sense, a general understanding of history, or a handful of detailed examples, instead of a solid, systematically collected body of historical evidence. A 2010 RAND study challenged this trend with rigorous analyses of all 30 insurgencies that started and ended between 1978 and 2008. This update to that original study expanded the data set, adding 41 new cases and comparing all 71 insurgencies begun and completed worldwide since World War II. With many more cases to compare, the study was able to more rigorously test the previous findings and address critical questions that the earlier study could not. For example, it could examine the approaches that led counterinsurgency forces to prevail when an external actor was involved in the conflict. It was also able to address questions about timing and duration, such as which factors affect the duration of insurgencies and the durability of the resulting peace, as well as how long historical counterinsurgency forces had to engage in effective practices before they won.
  table of contents: Introduction -- The cases -- Considering the "right" cases : identifying relevant subsamples -- Testing concepts for counterinsurgency -- Broader findings -- Results for motive-focused, iron first, and external-actor cases -- Conclusions and recommendations.
  note: Christopher Paul, Colin P. Clarke, Beth Grill, Molly Dunigan.
  note: "National Defense Research Institute."
  note: "Prepared for the Office of the Secretary of Defense."
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-286).
  note: Companion publication to: Paths to victory: detailed insurgency case studies.
  subject:
    topic: Counterinsurgency
    genre: Case studies
  subject:
    topic: Counterinsurgency
    topic: Research
  subject:
    topic: POLITICAL SCIENCE
    topic: Security (National & International)
  subject:
    topic: Counterinsurgency
  subject:
    topic: Counterinsurgency
    topic: Research
  classification: U241 .P379 2013
  classification: 355.02/18
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Paths to victory: detailed insurgency case studies
    identifier: (OCoLC)858981775
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Research report (Rand Corporation) ; RR-291/1-OSD
  identifier: 9780833083418
  identifier: 0833083414
  identifier: 9780833080547
  identifier: 0833080547
  identifier: 22573/ctt4cxvxw JSTOR
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: AWC
    record creation date: 130927
    record change date: 20260728172541.8
    record identifier: in00003909503
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng