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Revolutionary warfare:
Dragonwars, by J. Bowyer Bell. He is a diffcult read. I powered my way through teh below one, but I have to read it again.
Dynamics of the Armed Struggle, (by the same)
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Afghanistan is a whole new level of difficulty -- at least one order of magnitude. Iraq is going well now in large part (in my opinion) because they had a history of civil society (starting sometime...

Bill M: Yes, DofS is trying to correct their course. Initially in Iraq they sent a bunch of kids -- first-tour diplomats who didn't know anything. More recently, though, some more mature...

Doug McAdam, Political Process and the Development of Black Insurgency, 1930-1970, 2nd Ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. His discussion of group-level factors is great.

Eric Hoffer...

Ken White: I tried to use a new catch-all term to include the criminal enterprises: Illicit Power Structures (IPS). It is a couple years old and comes from a Dept of State initiative to attempt to...

Cavguy -- the above post is not personal, nor is it an attack. Mr. O’Neill, nor is it a “rant.” Rants do not cite theoretical constructs or other sources of information. The above post is a minor...

Staff = bureaucracy. I mean that in the objective, academic sense, not the colloquial, derogatory sense. It is a social-collective all its own, with typologies and dynamics governing structures and...

To give the USMC credit for the Anbar Awakening and the social change that went with it is laughable. The changes associated with the Awakening were an amalgamation of many, many factors, including...