Bibliography Category: Counterterrorism and Counterinsurgency

Kenny, Michael T. Leveraging Operational Preparation of the Environment in the GWOT. Monograph, School of Advanced Military Studies, Fort Leavenworth, KS, 2006. http://cgsc.cdmhost.com/cdm/singleitem/collection/p4013coll3/id/739 (accessed 12 August 2011). This monograph examines the effectiveness of USSOCOM’s operational preparation of the environment (OPE) as a component of the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT). The author suggests that OPE […]

Kemp, Robert. 2010. Counterinsurgency in Nangarhar Province, Eastern Afghanistan, 2004-2008. Military Review Vol. 90, no. 6 (November/December): 34-42. http://usacac.army.mil/CAC2/MilitaryReview/Archives/English/MilitaryReview_20101231_art008.pdf (accessed 2 August 2011). This article discusses counterinsurgency and counternarcotics efforts in the Nangarhar Province in Afghanistan. The article includes information on security and economic development projects.

Jones, Morgan. Interagency Efforts in the Global War of Terrorism. Strategy Research Project, United States Army War College, Carlisle Barracks, PA, 2007. http://www.hsdl.org/?view&did=479407 (accessed 27 September 2011). This paper asserts that the Joint Interagency Coordination Group (JIACG) model can serve as a template for interagency cooperation at the national level.

Joint Special Forces University Strategic Studies Department. Special Operations Forces Interagency Counterterrorism Reference Manual, 2nd edition. MacDill AFB, FL: The JSOU Press, 2011. https://jsou.socom.mil/JSOU%20Publications/2011SOFIACTRefManual_final.pdf (accessed 20 July 2011). This manual provides an outline of organizations, missions, and relationships that comprise the interagency process. The manual provides insight and information regarding various counterterrorism organizations in the […]

Green, Dan. 2008. Counterinsurgency Diplomacy: Political Advisors at the Operational and Tactical Levels. Military Review Vol. 88, special edition (June): 108-114. http://usacac.army.mil/CAC2/MilitaryReview/Archives/English/MilitaryReview_2008IAR0630_art016.pdf (accessed 5 April 2012) This article describes the author’s experience as a Foreign Policy Advisor (POLAD) to a multinational Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) in Uruzgan Province, Afghanistan.

Green, Dan. 2007. Counterinsurgency Diplomacy: Political Advisors at the Operational and Tactical Levels. Military Review Vol. 87, no. 3 (May/June): 24-30. http://usacac.army.mil/CAC2/MilitaryReview/Archives/English/MilitaryReview_2008IAR0630_art016.pdf (accessed 2 August 2011). This article describes the author’s experience as a Foreign Policy Advisor (POLAD) to a multinational Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) in Uruzgan Province, Afghanistan.

Gorkowski, Justin. A Penny for Your Thoughts, a Nickel for Your Heart: Buying Popular Support for Counterinsurgency. in Karen Gutteri’s Complex Operations Case Studies Series Vol. 6. Washington, DC: Center for Complex Operations, National Defense University, 2010. http://www.nps.edu/Academics/AcademicGroups/GPPAG/Docs/PDF/Research%20and%20Publications/6_TN_Penny_for_Thoughts.pdf (accessed 19 December 2011). This case study discusses a particular strategy of combating insurgencies, used in Iraq […]

Goodman, Will. Making Consequence Management Work: Applying the Lesson of the Joint Terrorism Task Force. Monterery, CA: Naval Postgraduate School Center for Homeland Defense and Security, 2008. http://www.hsaj.org/?special:fullarticle=9999.1.4 (accessed 12 February 2012). This essay describes the experience of the Joint Terrorism Task Force, a form of interagency counterterrorism unit set up in many areas across […]

Goodby, James E., Daniel L. Burghart, Cheryl A. Loeb, and Charles L. Thornton. Cooperative Threat Reduction for a New Era. Washington, DC: National Defense University Center for Technology and National Security Policy, 2004. http://www.ndu.edu/CTNSP/docUploaded/DTP4%20CTR%20for%20a%20New%20Era.pdf (accessed 8 August 2011). This paper is concerned with nuclear threat reduction, especially the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction program. It reviews […]

Gompert, David C., Terrence K. Kelly, Brooke Stearns Lawson, Michelle Parker and Kimberly Colloton. Reconstruction Under Fire: Unifying Civil and Military Counterinsurgency. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 2009. http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG870 (accessed 20 July 2011). The authors propose the several measures to improve the security of civil COIN.