Insurgency

The Patrol Ryan Flavelle foreword by David J. Bercuson The Patrol is a story told by Ryan Flavelle about his experience on a seven day patrol in Afghanistan, Ryan Flavelle is a reservist in the Canadian army who volunteered to serve in Afghanistan for seven months and Ryan was a signaller for the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry. Initial conflict, Ryan is told that he will be going on a seven day patrol through villages that are controlled by the Taliban, their goal is to patrol the areas

logical description of the strategic problems regarding China’s revolutionary war. The keys to conducting a successful revolutionary insurgency include understanding that the laws of war are developmental, that leaders must study the whole military situation, and that a military must be good at learning. The first key to conducting a successful revolutionary insurgency is understanding that the laws of war are developmental. Comrade Mao, felt that leaders must take a progressive approach to understand

THE EFFECT OF SOCIAL MEDIA ON BOKO-HARAM INSURGENCY IN NIGERIA AUGUST, 2015 CHAPTER ONE 1.0 INTRODUCTION Terrorism is globally becoming a household word as there is no nation that is completely absolved from its effect. Globalization has significantly influenced the spate of terrorism as the event in one part of the globe has direct or an indirect effect on others. This explains why Horne (2002) in Rourke (2008) observes that war, terrorism and other forms of transnational political

Extended Essay Draft “To what extent did the Maoist Insurgency influence the declaration of Martial law in the Philippines on 1972?” “What events influenced the decision to declare Martial Law in the Philippines in 1972?” Introduction: As a Filipina living as an expatriate, I have travelled and lived around the world and meeting new people and other Filipinos with different backgrounds. I was interested to what specific event affected their belief. The Martial law in 1972 is a major event in the

Suicide in the United States is the 11th leading cause of death, with over 32,000 killing themselves per year. While some causes or explanations for suicide will never be known, depression or other diagnosable mental or substance abuse disorders top the list of more than 90 percent of why lives are torn from us. Over the last couple years around the military there has been much debate on whether this rate has been drastically affected by the increased military footprint from fighting two wars.

AN ENCOUNTER WITH YEARNING “Come back, and scream as you want and break all the vases. Steal all the flowers. Come back… Just come back…” ― Khaled Juma The pale, flaky walls echoed with dismay, how do we find hope in these walls, thought Amir. His gaze was fixed at the wall in front of him. A map of the state of Kashmir hanging in the center, protected in a glass frame. “What brings you here?” The bearded man who looked like a muezzin questioned him. He was sitting on the wooden bench next

government took it one-step further to create almost an ideal insurgency in South Vietnam. An insurgency was developed and controlled from the Communist North Vietnamese government in Hanoi leading to both an unconventional and conventional conflict with the goal of unifying all of Vietnam. The North Vietnamese communist leadership exploited an immature and illegitimate South Vietnamese government successfully fueling the insurgency from Hanoi. Prior to the Vietnam conflict, North Vietnamese leadership

Analysis of the Causality of the “Counter Insurgency” Governmental Policies and the Presidential Campaign of 1968 This colloquium will define the connection between various sources related to the “counter insurgency” policies of the American government throughout the 1960s that caused a slow escalation of the Vietnam War in the fight against communist expansion in Southeast Asia. The Campaign of 1968 defines the legacy of president Kennedy “counter insurgency” policies, which President Nixon would

sacrifices to be made for it in magnitude and also in duration.” (Clausewitz, 92) With that maxim in mind, it makes strategic sense for an outside power to intervene in an insurgency when it supports the power’s policy objective and the cost of the intervention does not exceed the value of the object. Successful examples of insurgency intervention that made strategic sense can be observed during Athen’s support of the Helot revolt against the Spartans, France’s support of the American revolutionaries

Joint Publication (JP) 3-24 and Field Manual (FM) 3-24.2 have slightly different definitions of insurgency. JP 3-34 defines it as the organized use of subversion and violence by a group or movement that seeks to overthrow or force change of a governing authority. FM 3-24.2 defines it as a protracted politico-military struggle designed to weaken government control and legitimacy while increasing insurgent control. I have problems with both definitions. However, I disagree more with the joint publication