This book does not try to encapsulate the origins nor predict the future of this long and on-going conflict; instead it examines the combat actions in two of the most recent operations in Lebanon and the Gaza ...Read more >

This work is a companion to a previous volume entitled Boots on the Ground: Troop Density in Contingency Operations. Boots on the Ground analyzed historical precedent to develop a planning factor or average figure for the number of troops employed in successful contingency operations. The emphasis in that work was on the total number of troops needed, not the specific type of troops within that total. The historical examples represented various counterinsurgency, occupation and peacekeeping ...Read more >

This work discusses the historical development of technology and techniques to command and control large military forces actively engaged in combat operations against an armed enemy in fast paced, mobile style actions. The mobile nature of such operations can be defined as the movement of a military force swift enough to either surprise its enemy by its speed of advance or retreat, or which forces the enemy to respond in a manner that he is either unprepared for or less likely to be successful. ...Read more >

This collection contains studies of conflicts that occurred in three different centuries and in many different social, political, economic, and military ...Read more >

America’s Frontier Wars: Lessons for Asymmetric ...Read more >

Winning the War of the Flea Lessons from Guerrilla ...Read more >

Today’s counterinsurgency warfare involves a competition between human networks—ours and theirs. To understand their networks, we must understand the networks’s preexisting links as well as the cultural and historical context behind the struggle. We also have to understand not just the insurgents’ network, but those of the host-nation government, its people, our coalition partners, NGOs and, of course, ...Read more >