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Counterinsurgency, Security Forces, and the Identification Problem - Distinguishing Friend From Foe (Paperback)
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Counterinsurgency, Security Forces, and the Identification Problem - Distinguishing Friend From Foe (Paperback)
Series: Studies in Insurgency, Counterinsurgency and National Security
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This book presents a theory and empirical evidence for how security
forces can identify militant suspects during counterinsurgency
operations. A major oversight on the part of academics and
practitioners has been to ignore the critical antecedent issue
common to persuasion and coercion counterinsurgency (COIN)
approaches: distinguishing friend from foe. This book proposes that
the behaviour of security forces influences the likelihood of
militant identification during a COIN campaign, and argues that
security forces must respect civilian safety in order to create a
credible commitment to facilitate collaboration with a population.
This distinction is important as conventional wisdom has wrongly
assumed that the presence of security forces confers control over
terrain or influence over a population. Collaboration between
civilian and government actors is the key observable indicator of
support in COIN. Paradoxically, this theory accounts for why and
how increased risk to government forces in the short term actually
improves civilian security in the long run. Counterinsurgency,
Security Forces, and the Identification Problem draws on three case
studies: the Huk Rebellion in the Philippines post-World War II;
Marines Corps' experiences in Vietnam through the Combined Action
Program; and Special Operations activities in Iraq after 2003. For
military practitioners, the work illustrates the critical precursor
to establishing "security" during counterinsurgency operations. The
book also examines the role and limits of modern technology in
solving the identification problem. This book will be of interest
to students of counterinsurgency, military history, strategic
studies, US foreign policy, and security studies in general.
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