DEFEATING COMMUNIST INSURGENCY

Modeling insurgency, counter-insurgency, and coalition strategies and operations

We model insurgency and counter-insurgency (COIN) operations with a large-scale system of differential equations and a dynamically changing coalition network. We use these structures to analyze the components of leadership, promotion, recruitment, financial resources, operational techniques, network communications, coalition cooperation, logistics, security, intelligence, infrastructure develop...

Approaches to Modeling Insurgency

For the purposes of this paper, we define insurgency as an organized movement that uses armed violence to overthrow a country’s government while often hiding within the civilian population and using civilians to perform combat support functions. The use of civilian population differentiates insurgency from the regular warfare where such an exploitation of civilians would constitute a war crime....

Defeating Insurgents with Technology

S THE United States military looks to the future, two themes dominate most projections. The first is ad ­ vanced technology. Underwritten by A the microchip, the technologies of war are changing rapidly. Weapons with microprecision accuracy, supercomputers linked by unlimited bandwidth, platforms providing continuous sur ­ veillance of practically any spot on the digitally mapped earth—all are ...

Defeating Us Coercion

The bombing of Serbia that began on 24 March 1999 typifies the logic that underlies the use of force by the United States and its NATO allies. Their air strikes and cruise-missile attacks were designed not to defeat the Serbian government, but to coerce Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic to accept a political settlement. Instead of having to destroy his forces completely or to remove his gov...

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