#WavellReviews “The Ledger: Accounting for Failure in Afghanistan” by David Kilcullen and Greg Mills
Available here from Hurst & Co Publishers Although the US led campaign in Afghanistan had been described as being on life support for years, its...
Tag : counter insurgency
Building an Effective Indigenous Counter-Insurgency Force – Part 2
During their occupation of India, the British built one of the most effective indigenous military forces in history, the British Indian Army. This is not to...
Building an Effective Indigenous Counter-Insurgency Force – Part 1.
I’ve studied Counter insurgency for decades. When I served in the 6th Special Forces Group over fifty years ago, I was assigned to edit a...
Stabilisation 2.0? Insights from the Somali and African Union operations in Lower Shabelle
The African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) is the organization’s longest, largest, most expensive and most deadly peace operation....