Good luck with this. You will find many widely disparate opinions on each aspect of this study, but few "facts." All is also complicated by definitions of who is an "insurgent" and what a counterinsurgent thinks he needs to do to win and how many people he thinks he needs to accomplish those tasks.
In other words, the more precise your findings are the less accurate they are likely to be. If you can get your arms around the bigger picture though, it could be a worthwhile bit of analysis.
Robert C. Jones
Intellectus Supra Scientia
(Understanding is more important than Knowledge)
"The modern COIN mindset is when one arrogantly goes to some foreign land and attempts to make those who live there a lesser version of one's self. The FID mindset is when one humbly goes to some foreign land and seeks first to understand, and then to help in some small way for those who live there to be the best version of their own self." Colonel Robert C. Jones, US Army Special Forces (Retired)
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