Fellow Council Members,

I am finishing up a paper and I am looking for a resource that clearly states where the sociopolitical foundation of our current Stability and COIN doctrine comes from. While the common idea seems to be that it is based on some version of modernization theory, most post-Vietnam theories I could actually find are based in part on industrialization.

Does anyone have a resource that actually says what the foundational premisses of our efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan were based on?

Just as important, has that sociopolitical basis changed since that time?

Thanks