Why defeating insurgencies is hard: The effect of intelligence in counterinsurgency operations-a best-case scenario

Operations Research

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 578-585

  Kress, Moshe ^a   Szechtman, Roberto ^a  

^a NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Counterinsurgency; Intelligence; Lanchester models

Indexed keywords

COLLATERAL DAMAGE; COUNTER-INSURGENCY OPERATIONS; COUNTERINSURGENCY; DYNAMIC RELATION; GENERAL POPULATION; INTELLIGENCE; LANCHESTER MODELS;

REINFORCEMENT;

EMPLOYMENT;

EID: 68149148571     PISSN: 0030364X     EISSN: 15265463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/opre.1090.0700     Document Type: Article

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