The Operational Art of Counter-Insurgency

Script from the year 2011 in the subject Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict, Security, Counterinsurgency Training Center Kabul, language: English, abstract: The Operational Art of Counter-Insurgency: A Handbook for Instructors and Advanced Practitioners of Irregular Warfare. This hand book is primarily the Cliffs Notes for counterinsurgency and is meant to serve as a guide for experienced practioners. It contains outlines, key points, measures of effectiveness framed as questions and planning and design considerations. There will be mini-seminars or lectures that precede some sections. My intent is to show both contemporary expereince and historical background. There are also a small series of lectures that I have given at the Counterinsurgency Training Center in Kabul and or at a remote training locations to Coalition partners. When I put this together I made the assumption that those that would read this would have intermediate experience and knowledge of counterinsurgency and doctrine