Counterinsurgency

Counterinsurgency

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What is the definition of insurgency?

​Insurgency Definition

The NATO COIN doctrine defines insurgency as the actions of an organized, often ideologically motivated group or movement that seeks to effect or prevent political change of a governing authority within a region

Three elements of Insurgency

(1) actions or activities by an organized group

(2) a goal of some form of political change over a ruling regime

(3) the use of violence or subversive activity

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What are some of the domains of an insurgency?

domains tend to be social, economic, political, and ideological

What they tend to be​

​Domains of an Insurgency

​Primary Characteristics of an Insurgency

1) ideology

2) cause and insurgent narrative

3) internal support

4) objective

5) leadership

6) environment and geography

7) external support

8) phasing and timing

9) organizational and operational patterns

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What is the definition of counterinsurgency?

​Definition of Counterinsurgency

NATO doctrine defines counterinsurgency as comprehensive civilian and military efforts made to defeat an insurgency and to address any core grievances.

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What are some ways we think we can combat insurgents?

Counterinsurgency Tactics

1) security and secrecy

2) decentralization

3) inconsistency of insurgent narrative

4) insurgent propaganda

5) need to establish a base of operations (sanctuaries)

6) reliance on both internal and external support

7) economic or financial weakness

8) internal division or factionalized leadership

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What are some counterinsurgency missions that involved COIN?

Examples of Missions

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• Philippine Insurrection

• Boer War

• Huk Rebellion

• Malay Emergency

• "Troubles" in Northern Ireland

• 1980s war in El Salvador

• the "surge" in Iraq

• Second Intifada

• Colombia's campaign against the FARC in the past decade.

“Terrorism today moves at the speed of social media”- FBI director Christopher Wray

“The use of social media during terrorist attacks to incite and engage with followers and report to the media… is a new phenomenon, changing traditional notions of how terrorist groups communicate and organize” - CNN Analyst Peter Bergen

What are your opinions on these quotes?

​Work Cited

​https://www.benning.army.mil/MSSP/Counterinsurgency/#:~:text=Examples%20include%20the%20Philippine%20Insurrection,FARC%20in%20the%20past%20decade.

​https://www.nato.int/nato_static_fl2014/assets/pdf/pdf_2017_09/20170904_1709-counterinsurgency-rc.pdf