Improving the U.S. military's understanding of unstable environments vulnerable to violent extremist groups insights from social science

For over a decade, operations associated with irregular warfare have placed large demands on U.S. ground forces and have led to development of new Army and Joint doctrine. This report helps analysts identify and assess twelve key factors that create and perpetuate environments susceptible to insurge...

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Main Author: Thaler, David E.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Santa Monica, CA RAND [2013]©2013, 2013
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Collection: JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:For over a decade, operations associated with irregular warfare have placed large demands on U.S. ground forces and have led to development of new Army and Joint doctrine. This report helps analysts identify and assess twelve key factors that create and perpetuate environments susceptible to insurgency, terrorism, and other extremist violence and instability to inform military decisions on allocation of analytic and security assistance resources
Physical Description:1 online resource
ISBN:9780833084224
9780833081643
0833081640
0833084224