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 | THE OTHER END OF THE SPEAR : THE TOOTHTO TAIL RATIO (T3R) IN MODERN MILITARY OPERATIONS
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 > | 123 Pages 2.09 MB |
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 | CROSSING THE LINE OF DEPARTURE
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 > | 305 Pages 9.40 MB |
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.jpg) | SPECIAL ISSUE : COUNTERINSURGENCY/IRREGULAR WARFARE
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 > | 100 Pages 11.21 MB |
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