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By Matt Armstrong on April 27, 2008 10:56 PM 0 Vote 0 Votes

Briefly, a few links worth reading as you start your Monday...

Regulating Complex Terrain in Counterinsurgency by Mike Innes
Political Maneuver in Counterinsurgency by David Kilcullen over at SWJ, a part of the definitive archive of Dave Kilcullen
What Terrorists Really Want: Terrorist Motives and Counterterrorism Strategy by Max Abrahms
... commentary on Max's article is by The Faceless Bureaucrat AQ as Oddfellows (see my comments on an earlier IS article by Max here).
Tim Stevens at Ubiwar.com comments on The Al-Qaeda Media Machine by USC journalism and public diplomacy professor Phil Seib. Update: Arab Media Shack comments on Phil's paper as well.

Required Reading: 100 Years of COIN: What new have we Learned?
Categories: Counterinsurgency, Psychological Struggle
Merging Public Affairs, PSYOP, IO
Categories: Counterinsurgency, Psychological Struggle, Public Affairs
Al-Qaeda is not the only threat
Categories: Counterinsurgency, Psychological Struggle, Public Diplomacy, State Building
Counterinsurgency: A Guide for Policy-Makers
Categories: Counterinsurgency, Psychological Struggle, State Building
Noteworthy
Categories: Africa, Counterinsurgency, Interagency, Media, Public Diplomacy
Others discuss the “Phallo-Fascism of a Vainglorious Anthropologist”
Categories: Counterinsurgency, Psychological Struggle
Reading lists on ethnographic intelligence/human terrain mapping, and some thoughts on same
Categories: Counterinsurgency, Psychological Struggle, Public Diplomacy
Afghanistan: Americans have the wristwatches, but who has the time?
Categories: Counterinsurgency, Psychological Struggle

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