Thesis statement: It is a popular belief that counterinsurgency campaigns can be won with superior fighting forces and superior firepower with no regard for cultural and socioeconomic factors. The American Indian and Philippine counterinsurgency...
I intend to prove that the policies of attraction are not as effective as the policies of chastisement when dealing with counterinsurgency operations, specifically during campaigns in Mexico and the Philippines. I will mention historical facts to...
Defeating an Insurgency: Balancing the Battlefield for a Counterinsurgency
Counterinsurgency operations have been conducted all over the world throughout history
and in many ways. Insurgencies can be very difficult to defeat if not planned in the...
Throughout history and currently today, the United States has had to practice the policy of chastisement to defeat insurgents and the policy of attraction to win over the loyalty of the local populace. American forces must constantly change...
Following successful implementation and balance of policies of Attraction and Chastisement leads to affective counterinsurgency campaigns. The effective use of tactical strategies sets conditions for success. A balance of demonstrating good...
Thesis Statement : It is important for military professionals to take time and study history in order to gain a better understanding of the past and how to use these lessons learned to better train and prepare Soldiers for the challenges that lie...
Thesis Statement – It is important for military professionals to take time and study history in order to gain a better understanding of the past and how to use these lessons learned to better train and prepare Soldiers for the challenges that lie...
The Revolutionary War and Philippine Insurrection demonstrate the use of attraction and chastisement policies in counter insurgency and asymmetric operations; however efforts at attraction are most effective when chastisement efforts have been...
Nations have conducted many Counterinsurgency Operations throughout history. Lessons
learned from these battles have been documented, but not always used for future operations.
Understanding past successes and failures is critical to planning and...
This study analyzes the effects of the new flight pay system embodied in the Aviation Career Incentive Act of 1974 as it applies to rated Air Force officers. The analysis examines data on attraction, retention, cost, and workability of the gate...
Casebook serves as background information for training in the field of psychological operations and as an introduction to the more important elements and principles of PSYOP.
I believe that the methods and tactics employed in both America from 1777-1783
and the Philippines in 1898-1902 have lessons to teach us for today’s battlefield. These counterinsurgencies were very different but have similarities in what...
I will argue why it is important for Soldiers to study military history. As a basis for my argument, I will discuss the Freedmen Bureau and explain its mission. I will discuss why the Freemen Bureau was not successful. I will explain...
This work proposes a novel approach to military transformation, 'Adaptive Transformation,' that accounts for an inescapable reality in the current and future operational environment: uncertainty. Military planners and decision makers have to face...
The counterinsurgency campaigns of the United States in the Philippines from 1902 – 1913 and France in Algeria from 1954 – 1962 share common factors of success and failure. Successful counterinsurgency operations are characterized by three...
"Map reading and the training of the intelligence section, i.e., scouts, snipers, and observers are a group of subjects which every officer should personally take an interest in. Not only because they are, as subjects, most interesting, but...
The Philippine War was a “splendid little war” that was waged in a foreign soil. It was quick and victorious; at least, that was what America believed. The sequence of events following America’s decisions in annexing the islands, led to an...
This monograph examines the cumulative effect which improvements in information technology have had at the operational level of war. Specifically, it uses the Clausewitzian theory of war to analyze how modern methods of information processing and...
The United States currently finds itself conducting counterinsurgency efforts across the globe, facing insurgencies on an unprecedented scale. It is critical to adapt tactics, techniques and procedures appropriate for a counterinsurgency....