Human Factors Considerations of Undergrounds in Insurgencies

braun · 03-03-2007

Department of the Army Pamphlet 550-104, 1966

I have been reading this little tome at work as part of a project to understand NLF/VC auxiliary and intelligence infrastructure during the Viet Nam war.

It is not aimed exclusively at VC organisation, rather it is meant to be a study of "undergounds" in general throughout the mid-20th century from WWII through to the various small wars leading up to the publication date in the mid-1960s.

Even with the advent of AQ decentralised organisational theories and online terrorist training, I feel that this publication may have some value as it gets into the nuts and bolts of the psychology of the insurgent and his support network as well as how he did (does?) things.

It can be downloaded as a 3.6Mb PDF from the Combined Arms Research Digital Library here

03-03-2007	#1
braun Council Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Australia Posts: 18	Human Factors Considerations of Undergrounds in Insurgencies Department of the Army Pamphlet 550-104, 1966 I have been reading this little tome at work as part of a project to understand NLF/VC auxiliary and intelligence infrastructure during the Viet Nam war. It is not aimed exclusively at VC organisation, rather it is meant to be a study of "undergounds" in general throughout the mid-20th century from WWII through to the various small wars leading up to the publication date in the mid-1960s. Even with the advent of AQ decentralised organisational theories and online terrorist training, I feel that this publication may have some value as it gets into the nuts and bolts of the psychology of the insurgent and his support network as well as how he did (does?) things. It can be downloaded as a 3.6Mb PDF from the Combined Arms Research Digital Library here

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