On 9 December 1947, Dutch troops entered the West Javanese village of Rawagedeh (now
called Balongsari) to 'cleanse'the area of Indonesian guerrilla fighters. They rounded up the …

Whether out of historical interest, romantic identification with the colonized or as models for
contemporary counterinsurgency experts, the mass violence of insurgency and …

In this part we will study the use of co-option in the reality of contemporary
counterinsurgency warfare. As argued in Chapter Three (section 3.5) today's campaigns can …

Cet article explore la composante transnationale de la généalogie contre-insurrectionnelle.
Dans un premier temps, il analyse le rôle structurant du modèle stratégique classique …

Since the publication in 2002 of John Nagl's Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife,
organizational learning has been widely presumed an important ingredient for success in …

Traditional analyses of operational effectiveness often lack consideration of civil-military
relations. However, in operations with complex and ambitious political aims, such as …

This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent
chapters of this book. The book aims to originate from a special issue of the Journal of …

This thesis examines the complex, interdisciplinary nature of counterinsurgency in the 21st
century by assessing the whole-of-government, population-centric approach that the Dutch …