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As recently as 7 July 2009, your dataset was not linked from your website. Dr. Toronto and I looked often for the data, and given the previous responses from the KSU emails this winter, we assumed...

Dr. Lyall,

First, Thanks for posting your dataset. I know (as this discussion above shows) how hard it is to code one. We thought it might be better than the RAND set we were using, that is why...

Wilf -

Unfortunately I can't blame the Army for this. This is pure academia. One of the basic requirements of my thesis was to define what I was talking about, and how it was (slightly)...

This is from my thesis - best I could do for a definition.

As a grad student working full time, I had neither the time nor resources to create my own dataset. RAND's was the least bad. Lyall and Wilson have yet to release their dataset, which only...

It's all how you count settlements. From data used by RAND in this monograph, which I used for my graduate thesis:

RAND considered 89 post-1945 insurgencies. I removed the 16 ongoing insurgencies...

Chapter 2 on "full spectrum COIN" in Afghanistan is worth the price of the book alone, in my view.

I'm in the midst of the book. Kilcullen is as always a good writer, and unloads on the Bush administration execution of GWOT as alienating many who did not need to be alienated, at least not all at...

Thanks for saying that. I hate it when people critcize "Big Army" as if it's some unchanging monolith, or any shotgun generalizations. We all have our strengths, roles, and weaknesses. Changes of...