Understanding Counterinsurgency: Doctrine, operations, and challenges

Thomas Rid and Thomas Keaney

Contents

Notes on contributors
Acknowledgments
List of abbreviations
1. Understanding counterinsurgency
THOMAS KEANEY AND THOMAS RID

PART I: Doctrine

2. France
ETIENNE DE DURAND
3. Britain
ALEXANDER ALDERSON
4. Germany
TIMO NOETZEL
5. United States
CONRAD CRANE

PART II: Operational aspects

6. Army
PETER MANSOOR
7. Marine Corps
FRANK HOFFMAN
8. Airpower
CHARLES J. DUNLAP, JR
9. Naval support
MARTIN N. MURPHY
10. Special Forces
KALEV I. SEPP
11. Intelligence
12. DAVID KILCULLEN
13. Local security forces
14. JOHN NAGL

14. PART III
16. Challenges
17. Governance
18. NADIA SCHADLOW
19. Culture
20. MONTGOMERY McFATE
21. Ethics
22. SARAH SEWALL
23. Information operations
24. ANDREW EXUM
25. Civil-military integration
26. MICHELLE PARKER AND MATTHEW IRVINE
27. Time
28. AUSTIN LONG
29. Counterinsurgency in context
30. THOMAS RID AND THOMAS KEANEY
31. Suggested further reading
32. Index

Thomas Rid and Thomas Keaney is a visiting scholar at the Shalem Center in Jerusalem and a non-resident fellow at the Center for Transatlantic Relations in the School for Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University.

Thomas Keaney, Colonel, USAF (Ret.), is Associate Director of Strategic Studies at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies.