Quote Originally Posted by William F. Owen View Post
Three years ago, I talked to retired Colonel living in Nepal. From what I gathered from him, if ever there was an insurgency that could have been quickly and easily defeated, it was this one. It was almost as if the Government didn't want to defeat them.

I am not so up on the nuances of Nepalese politics, but my I am pretty sure that no COIN doctrine was applied as we would understand The Nepalese Government clearly didn't act, in any meaningful way, but rather blundered despite a wealth of opportunities to do otherwise.

I'd be extremely interested to know anymore detail.
Well, hosted right here in our library is the USAWC paper The Maoist Insurgency in Nepal, 1996-2001.

The International Crisis Group has published quite a bit of good detail on the situation over the past few years. On their Nepal archive page you can find links to all of'em, if you have the time to go through them as backgrounders.

Jane's Intelligence Review has also published a few interesting pieces on the insurgency (a good one a couple of years back on the Maoist's use of IEDs) unfortunately, they're subscriber access only.