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The Urbanization of Insurgency: The Potential Challenge to U.S. Army Operations
Jennifer Taw,Bruce Hoffman +1 more
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In this paper, the effects of urbanization and population growth on the conduct of insurgency/counterinsurgency operations and assesses the U.S.'s ability to effectively support foreign nations' counter-informative activities.Abstract:
This report evaluates the effects of urbanization and population growth on the conduct of insurgency/counterinsurgency operations and assesses the U.S.'s ability to effectively support foreign nations' counterinsurgency activities.read more
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Getting off the ground: On the politics of urban verticality
Stephen Graham,Lucy E. Hewitt +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that critical urban research is characterized by horizontalism and argue that the swathe of recent urban writings have neglected the vertical qualities of contemporary urbanization, and elucidate three areas where vertically oriented research is emerging: the links between Google Earth and urbanism; the connections between social secession and ascension through buildings, walkways and personalized air travel.
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On Other War: Lessons from Five Decades of Rand Counterinsurgency Research
TL;DR: The authors summarized much of what is known about prior counter-insurgency and made recommendations for improving it based on the RAND Corporation's decades-long study of the subject, and concluded that many of the alleged differences between past and current COIN are overstated, while many specific details do vary greatly, insurgency is a more general phenomenon that is not a product of Cold War peculiarities.
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Insurgency And Counterinsurgency In The 21st Century: Reconceptualizing Threat And Response
Steven Metz,Raymond A. Millen +1 more
TL;DR: The U.S. military is only as good at counterinsurgency support as its weakest link, not its strongest as mentioned in this paper, and the key to success is not to become better at counter insurgency, but to help local security and intelligence forces become effective at it.
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Cities on Fire: Social Mobilization, State Policy, and Urban Insurgency:
TL;DR: The authors argue that urban insurgency emerges when security forces are politically constrained in their use of violence, opening space for sustained violence, and state policy and strategy, rather than state capacity, can play a central role in civil war onset.
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A Contemporary Challenge To State Sovereignty: Gangs And Other Illicit Transnational Criminal Organizations In Central America, El Salvador, Mexico, Jamaica, And Brazil
TL;DR: The gang phenomenon is a major non-state player and a serious threat in the global and regional security arenas as mentioned in this paper, and the gang phenomenon in Central America has been examined in general and in El Salvador, Mexico, Jamaica and Brazil more specifically.
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Political Order in Changing Societies
TL;DR: This now-classic examination of the development of viable political institutions in emerging nations is a major and enduring contribution to modern political analysis as mentioned in this paper, and its Foreword, Francis Fukuyama assesses Huntington's achievement, examining the context of the original publication as well as its lasting importance.
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The State, War, and the State of War
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors have tried to explain the changes that have taken place regarding the nature of wars and conflicts in the world and how the world has come to understand it.