Bibliography Category: Counterterrorism and Counterinsurgency

Butts, Kent Hughes, Terry Klapakis, and Art Bradshaw. “The Military’s Role in Addressing the Underlying Conditions of Terrorism.” Issue Paper, Center for Strategic Leadership, United States Army War College, Carlisle Barracks, PA, 2006. http://www.csl.army.mil/usacsl/Publications/IP05-06.pdf (accessed 6 October 2011). This paper summarizes the findings of a Counter Ideological Support to Terrorism (CIST) conference held in June […]

Butts, Kent Hughes and Jeffrey C. Reynolds. The Struggle Against Extremist Ideology: Addressing the Conditions That Foster Terrorism. Center for Strategic Leadership, United States Army War College, Carlisle Barracks, PA, 2005. Additional information is not available.

Burton, Brian M. 2012. The Promise and Peril of the Indirect Approach. Prism Vol. 3, no. 1 (January): 47-62. http://www.ndu.edu/press/lib/pdf/prism3-1/prism_47-62_burton.pdf (accessed 6 March 2012). This article describes and critiques the counterterrorism strategy commonly known as the indirect approach. This approach emphasizes working with at-risk partner states using a “persistent but low-visibility presence” to build up […]

Brewer, Cecily. Disarmament in South Sudan. in Karen Gutteri’s Complex Operations Case Studies Series Vol. 7. Washington, DC: Center for Complex Operations, National Defense University, 2010. http://www.nps.edu/Academics/AcademicGroups/GPPAG/Docs/PDF/Research%20and%20Publications/7_TN_Disarmament_in_Sudan.pdf (accessed 19 December 2011). This essay describes the implementation of a disarmament and arms collection program in Southern Sudan following its independence from Sudan. The aims of this […]

Bowman, Clarence W., III. “Counter Threat Finance as a Critical Subset of Irregular Warfare: An Interpretive Case Study of Northern Nigeria.” Monograph, School of Advanced Military Studies, Fort Leavenworth, KS, 2009. http://cgsc.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p4013coll3/id/2450 (accessed 15 August 2011). From included abstract: The purpose of this research is to explore the dynamic of threat financing supporting Islamist violent […]

Bensahel, Nora. The Counterterror Coalitions: Cooperation with Europe, NATO, and the European Union. Santa Monica,CA: RAND, 2003. http://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/monograph_reports/2005/MR1746.pdf (accessed 22 March 2012). This report explores the increased cooperation between and development of a counterterrorism policy with Europe, and discusses the “right balance” between bilateral and multilateral approaches. It argues that U.S. should pursue military and […]

Bensahel, Nora. 2006. A Coalition of Coalitions: International Cooperation against Terrorism. Studies in Conflict & Terrorism Vol. 29, no. 1: 35–49. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10576100500351284 (accessed 22 March 2012). This paper discusses the problems of being part of a “coalition against terror”. Multiple coalitions exist, largely independent of one another, but are often linked by common purposes and […]

Barno, David W. and Andrew Exum. Responsible Transition: Securing U.S. Interests in Afghanistan Beyond 2011. Washington, DC: Center for a New American Security, 2010. http://www.cnas.org/files/documents/publications/CNAS_ResponsibleTransition_BarnoExum_2.pdf (accessed 6 October 2011). This report seeks to identify important US interests in Afghanistan and Pakistan and to outline how the United States and its allies can transition from the […]

Baltazar, Thomas and Elisabeth Kvitashvili. 2007. The Role of USAID and Development Assistance in Combating Terrorism. Military Review Vol. 87, no. 2 (March/April): 38-40. http://usacac.army.mil/CAC2/MilitaryReview/Archives/English/MilitaryReview_2008IAR0630_art015.pdf (accessed 2 August 2011). This is an article about the increasingly important role that USAID, and economic development in general, play in the War on Terrorism. Development has become a pillar […]

Andrade, Dale and James H. Willbanks. 2006. CORDS/Phoenix: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Vietnam for the Future. Military Review Vol. 86, no. 2 (March/April): 9-23. http://usacac.army.mil/CAC2/MilitaryReview/Archives/English/MilitaryReview_2006CR1031_art013.pdf (accessed 2 August 2011). This article examines the counterinsurgency and pacification efforts of the Vietnam War in an effort to gain insights and draw conclusions that could be useful for the […]