Space-Time Modeling of Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in Iraq

Journal of Quantitative Criminology

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 31-48

  Braithwaite, Alex ^a   Johnson, Shane D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Counterinsurgency; Improvised Explosive Device (IED); Insurgency; Iraq; SIGACTS; Space time modeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857235377     PISSN: 07484518     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10940-011-9152-8     Document Type: Article

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