Policing And Coin Operations Lessons Learned Strategies And Future Directions Samuel Musa by Samuel Musa, John Morgan, Matt Keegan 9781478216322, 1478216328 instant download after payment.

At the time of this writing, the United States and the other members of the
International Security Assistance Forces are completing nearly a decade of
conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan. What started as more conventional or
traditional fights has degenerated over time into insurgency warfare,
something U.S. Forces have had to re-learn and re-build to fight. Re-learn
and re-build are key elements as U.S. Forces have fought insurgencies in the
past, but consistently maintained forces to fight more conventional warfare.
Counterinsurgency (COIN) is very different from armored vehicles rolling
through the Fulda Gap, or the race to Baghdad. It is a fight not against a
Government as much as it is a fight for control of the mind-set of the
population by non-state actors in a race to gain popular support. It is a
grassroots battle that not only requires military force, but security
established at the local level through everyday police presence that
represents the Rule of Law, the national Government, and safety and
stability locally. It is against this backdrop that the Center for Technology
and National Security Policy (CTNSP) and the Combating Terrorism
Technical Support Office (CTTSO) came together to look at Policing and
COIN and the ways, methods, and techniques that could be shared to help
overcome the insurgencies Coalition forces face. The efforts of the CTNSP
at the National Defense University (NDU) and the CTTSO culminated in a
one-day workshop held on September 29, 2010, on Policing and COIN
Operations: Lessons Learned, Strategies, and Future Directions.