The dangerous myths and dubious promise of COIN
dc.contributor.author | Porch, Douglas | |
dc.contributor.department | National Security Affairs | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-08-06T17:58:32Z | |
dc.date.available | 2014-08-06T17:58:32Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2011 | |
dc.description | Douglas Porch is a Professor at the Naval Postgraduate School (USA). This text is a concise transcription of his keynote address at the CIHM Congress (organised by the Netherlands Institute for Military History) in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, August 2010. | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | Counterinsurgency (COIN) is a topic of both contemporary and historical interest in the age of what has been called a global counterinsurgency. It is totally appropriate that historians should devote attention to COIN doctrine that is being rediscovered by military organisations and that has spawned its own ‘latter-day priesthood.’ This priesthood argues that population-centric, ‘hearts and minds’ doctrines offers a formula for success in winning over people and places in the grip of terrorist organisations. | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10945/42557 | |
dc.rights | This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States. | en_US |
dc.title | The dangerous myths and dubious promise of COIN | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dspace.entity.type | Publication |