History shows that an afflicted nation must itself defeat an insurgency politically and militarily, and the best way to help is to offer advice, training, and equipment.

Air Power in the New counterinsurgency Era: The Strategic Importance of USAF Advisory and Assistance Missions

History

Grill, Beth

Rosenau, William

Mueller, Karl P.

Vick, Alan J.

Grissom, Adam

Americas

RAND Corporation

Insurgency is the most prevalent form of armed conflict and the subject of countless studies, yet the U.S. military has only recently begun to review doctrine and training in this area. An examination of approaches to counterinsurgency from 30 recent resolved campaigns reveals, for example, that good COIN practices tend to 'run in packs' and that the balance of selected good and bad practices perfectly predicts the outcome of a conflict.

Victory Has a Thousand Fathers: Sources of Success in Counterinsurgency

Paul, Christopher

Clarke, Colin P.

Reference

A collection of the 30 most recent resolved insurgencies, covering the period 1978 to 2008, along with a bank of 76 factors that helped or hindered the COIN force in each case and in each phase of each case, supplements an analysis of historical and contemporary insurgencies, providing valuable lessons for U.S. engagement in and support for COIN operations.

Victory Has a Thousand Fathers: Detailed Counterinsurgency Case Studies

How can the U.S. Department of Defense increase the effectiveness of its efforts to help partners build the capacity of their military and other security forces? To form a base of evidence to inform policy discussions and investment decisions, a RAND study collected and compared 20 years of data on 29 historical case studies of U.S. involvement in building partner capacity.

What Works Best When Building Partner Capacity and Under What Circumstances?

Engineering & Transportation

Moroney, Jennifer D.P.

Hogler, Joe

Leah, Christine

Young University of Southern In, Stephanie L.

Engineering

Building on a 2010 RAND study of the 30 insurgencies begun and completed between 1978 and 2008, this study added 41 new cases to the data set, allowing comparisons across all 71 insurgencies begun and completed worldwide since World War II.

Paths to Victory: Lessons from Modern Insurgencies

Dunigan, Molly

Military

In-depth case studies of 41 insurgencies since World War II break each conflict into phases and examine the trajectory that led to the outcome (insurgent win or counterinsurgent win). Detailed analysis of the findings, including those from an original set of 30 insurgencies (for a total of 71 historical cases), is available in the companion volume, Paths to Victory: Lessons from Modern Insurgencies.

Paths to Victory: Detailed Insurgency Case Studies

This report explores what the United States can do in challenging capacity-building contexts to maximize prospects for success, focusing on potential challenges and workarounds and deriving recommendations for future engagements.

What Works Best When Building Partner Capacity in Challenging Contexts?

Business & Money

Gordon, Brian

Saum-Manning, Lisa

P. Moroney, Jennifer D.

Peterson, Heather

Management & Leadership

Congress has authorized billions of dollars for new security cooperation programs since 2001 to meet an ever-widening set of national security challenges. This report analyzes the obstacles that the Department of Defense faces in tracking its spending on security cooperation activities and recommends ways to streamline its reporting process to meet new requirements for transparency imposed by the 2017 National Defense Authorization Act.

Follow the Money: Promoting Greater Transparency in Department of Defense Security Cooperation Reporting

McNerney, Michael J.

Thaler, David E.

Boback, Jeremy

Miles, Renanah

Clapp-Wincek, Cynthia

Security cooperation is an important mission of the U.S. Air Force. This report reviews two core Air Force decisionmaking processes--the strategy, planning, and programming process and the concept development and acquisition process--to determine the extent to which decisionmakers consider security cooperation impact and to recommend ways to make such considerations systematic and explicit.

Factoring Security Cooperation into Core U.S. Air Force Decisionmaking Processes: Incorporating Impact in Planning, Programming, and Capability Development

Pezard, Stephanie

Marquis, Jefferson P.

In this study, RAND researchers examined the current role of security cooperation efforts as a tool in the emerging strategic competition among the United States, Russia, and China. In particular, they sought to identify how, where, and to what degree the three major competitors?plus Australia, Japan, India, and several countries in Europe?are using security cooperation.

Security Cooperation in a Strategic Competition

Charap, Samuel

Massicot, Dara

Stalczynski, Mark

Mazarr, Michael J.

Morris, Lyle J.

BLANK, Jonah

Rhoades, Ashley L.

Shostak, Melissa

Chase, Michael S.

Beauchamp-Mustafaga, Nathan

Grossman, Derek

Shih, Alice

Noyes, Alexander

Walker, Dori

Asia

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