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Author Long, Austin.

Title On "other war" : lessons from five decades of RAND counterinsurgency research / Austin Long.

Publication Info. Santa Monica, CA : RAND, National Defense Research Institute, 2006.

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 101 pages) : illustrations
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Note "Prepared for the Office of the Secretary of Defense."
"MG-482-OSD"--Page 4 of cover.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 85-101).
Note Print version record.
Contents Introduction -- The Wizards of Less-Than-Armageddon: RAND and COIN -- Analogies and War: Are Theory and Empirics from Prior COIN Relevant? -- COIN Theory: What Are Insurgencies and How Does One Fight Them? Hearts and Minds Theory: COIN as a Problem of Modernization ; Cost/Benefit Theory: Carrots and Sticks for the Rational Peasant ; Critiques of Cost/Benefit: Ratcheted Escalation and Marginal Costs ; Moving COIN Theory Forward: Is Synthesis Possible? -- The Social Scientists' Wars: RAND and COIN Practice. Organization and COIN: Who Does What and How Would One Know? ; Amnesty and Reward: Catching More Flies with Honey ; Border Security: Morice and McNamara: A Tale of Two Lines ; Pacification: All Politics Is Local -- COIN Old and New. Organizing for COIN: Breaking the Interagency Phalanx ; Open Arms, Open Wallets: Amnesty and Reward ; The Khalilzad Lines? : Border Security in Iraq and Afghanistan ; An End to Streets Without Joy: Security, Development, and Pacification -- Conclusion: Back to the Future? -- Appendix: RAND Counterinsurgency Publications, 1955-1995: Selected Annotated Bibliography.
Subject Counterinsurgency.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Military Science.
HISTORY -- Military -- Other.
HISTORY -- Revolutionary.
Counterinsurgency. (OCoLC)fst00881325
Added Author United States. Department of Defense.
National Defense Research Institute (U.S.)
Other Form: Print version: Long, Austin. On "other war". Santa Monica, CA : RAND, National Defense Research Institute, 2006 0833039261 9780833039262 (DLC) 2006007106 (OCoLC)64442922
ISBN 9780833041104 (electronic bk.)
083304110X (electronic bk.)
0833039261 (paperback;) (alk. paper)
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