Scholarly Research Paper from the year 2010 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict Studies, Security, grade: -, Chapman University (Counterinsurgency Training Center), language: English, comment: This is a 40 page paper on urban conflict. It looks at three major urban battles, Stalingrad, Hue, and Mogadishu and offers an assessment and lessons learned for asymmetrical warfare., abstract: This is a 40 page essay on three major urban battles; Stalingrad, Hue and Mogadishu. It offers an analysis and lessons learned for the contemporary operating environment. Increasingly, urban operations will be a requirement of counterinsurgency. For instance, generally speaking the area known as the Middle East is comprised of 18 Nations; is 4.3 million square miles, had a population of 326 million in 2002. 57% of this population resides in urban areas. For comparison, 25% of the population was urban in 1960 and current projections indicate that by the year 2015 that 70% of the population will be urban. Increasingly, military operations and or counter-insurgency operations within urban areas means that operations will increasingly include a succession of urban operations that literally will cross ethnic and cultural boundaries from one street to the next and will increase the complexity of operations....thus adding another layer of complexity to the hearts and minds campaign.

Essay from the year 2011 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict Studies, Security, grade: None, Counterinsurgency Training Center Kabul, language: English, comment: This short paper is five vignettes that I used to support counterinsurgency training at the Counterinsurgency Training Center in Kabul., abstract: Five historical vignettes from the history of counterinsurgency that look at the paradox of strategy and learning in a conflict environment. These vignettes were used to support initial training in counterinsurgency and attempt to lay the framework for thinking in less "lethal" terms when thinking, planning and designing counterinsurgency operations. Present U.S. military actions are inconsistent with that fundamental of counterinsurgency which establishes winning popular allegiance as the ultimate goal. While conceptually recognizing the total problem in our literature, Americans appear to draw back from its complexity in practice and gravitate toward a faulty premise for its resolution-military destruction...

Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict Studies, Security, Chapman University (Brandman/Chapman University, California), language: English, comment: This paper looks at language and culture training as both a counterinsurgency enabler and also a method to reduce culture shock at deployment and redeployment., abstract: This paper is based on the US experience. The US Army is active and present in many nations in the world today in a variety of capacities ranging from missions to operations. In every nation the US Army visits, they encounter that nations' Culture and Worldview. Sometimes that encounter is positive and leads to easily built working relationships for a common goal, yet other times that encounter is very difficult leaving our soldiers and civilians experiencing extreme levels of culture shock (what occurs when two or more people groups that have vastly different worldviews encounter one another) which in turn makes the mission nearly impossible to accomplish. This paper is a joint attempt to combine cross-cultural skills gleaned from global Christian Missionary experience, Soldier deployed experience and Counter Insurgency (COIN) philosophy.

Script from the year 2011 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict Studies, Security, grade: -, Counterinsurgency Training Center Kabul, language: English, comment: A handbook of measures of effectiveness, doctrinal approaches and planning and design considerations, abstract: The Operational Art of Counter-Insurgency: A Handbook for Instructors and Advanced Practitioners of Irregular Warfare. This hand book is primarily the Cliffs Notes for counterinsurgency and is meant to serve as a guide for experienced practioners. It contains outlines, key points, measures of effectiveness framed as questions and planning and design considerations. There will be mini-seminars or lectures that precede some sections. My intent is to show both contemporary expereince and historical background. There are also a small series of lectures that I have given at the Counterinsurgency Training Center in Kabul and or at a remote training locations to Coalition partners. When I put this together I made the assumption that those that would read this would have intermediate experience and knowledge of counterinsurgency and doctrine