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Here's a quick little piece that describes some "soft" (ie, non-quantitative) approaches to counterinsurgency drawn from a book on the same topic written by the same authors. I would say that I've read the first several chapters, and found it absolutely fascinating -- but then I use "soft" methods myself, so of course I'm always primed to buy the argument that those approaches have been shorted and need to be given more attention.
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Richard Shultz and Andrea Dew of Tufts Universitys Fletcher school have written a new book on counterinsurgency operations. They provide some clues to its contents in an op-ed in yesterdays NYT entitled ... [Read More]
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Hey, Prof. Shultz was my master's thesis adviser! Sharp guy, that. Thanks for the heads up.
Posted by: Chap | August 07, 2006 at 12:52 PM
For a broader and more theoretical view you might find this article by Maj.Gen.Scales (ret.) of interest The Social Scientists War. He bases it on the work of Alan Beyerchen at OSU.
Posted by: James | August 07, 2006 at 08:52 PM
Scales is also very sharp -- thanks for the cite.
Posted by: dauber | August 08, 2006 at 06:57 AM