Drug-tolerant insurgents

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 ...

Confronting Entrenched Insurgents

During counterinsurgency operations, government forces with superior firepower confront weaker low-signature insurgents. Under what conditions should government (Blue) forces attack insurgent (Red) strongholds? How should the government allocate its force across different strongholds when the insurgents’ threat to the Blue civilian population must be taken into account? How should the governmen...

Understanding engagement with insurgents through retweet rhetoric

Organisations — including insurgent movements — harness social media to engage potential consumers. They evoke sympathetic (and antipathic) response; content sharing engenders affinity and community. We report on a pilot study of presumed rhetorical intent for statuses retweeted by a set of suspected Islamic State-sympathetic Twitter accounts. This annotation is orthogonal to prior opinion mini...

How Insurgents Win: Examining the Dynamics of Modern Insurgencies

Criminals, Militias, and Insurgents: Organized Crime in Iraq

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