Various PDF files. Insightful and relative to Counterinsurgency and Counter Terrorism

WHAT ARE WE FIGHTING FOR #Counterinsurgency Expert Dr. David #Kilcullen.pdf - #Daeshbags #TwitterKurds #Iraq #Syria https://t.co/OIFBGEJael
— Counterinsurgency (@COIN_Syria_Iraq) February 21, 2015

What are we fighting for - Dr. David Kilcullen 

UNOSAT_A3_Landscape_Kobane_DamageAssessment_20150211.pdf

The Center for Strategic Studies TSG-Foreign-Fighters-in-Syria.pdf

Exploring the Kurdish Population in the Turkish Context

Twenty-Eight Articles: Fundamentals of Company-Level Counterinsurgency
by Dr. David Kilcullen, Lieutenant Colonel, Australian Army
Editorial Abstract: The author presents a tactical-level preparatory guide, based on lessons learned from personal campaign experience. He emphasizes the necessity of proper mental and situational preparation, and offers a series of recommendations for applying concepts and ideas in the real world of personal-level influence operations.

Victory Has a Thousand Fathers
Sources of Success in Counterinsurgency - RAND Corp.
Christopher Paul • Colin P. Clarke • Beth Grill
This research grew out of the sponsor’s desire to be able to evidence the historical contribution (or lack of contribution) of activities concordant with what is now referred to as strategic communication to the outcomes of counterinsurgency (COIN) campaigns. The method that the RAND Corporation proposed to answer this question—a combination of historical case studies and the qualitative comparative approach—was capable of answering a much broader set of questions about the contributions of a wider range of approaches to COIN with minimal additional effort. This research, then, reports on the demonstrated effectiveness of a variety of approaches to COIN (including strategic communication) through case studies of the world’s 30 most recent resolved insurgencies.

Corporations and Counterinsurgency - Rand Corp

by William Rosenau, Peter Chalk, Renny McPherson, Michelle Parker, Austin Long

Like nongovernmental organizations and private military companies, large multinational corporations (MNCs) can play significant roles in zones of violent conflict. Any comprehensive conflict analysis needs to understand these roles, especially as they relate to counterinsurgency. Using a set of three case studies, the authors explore MNC operations in Liberia, Papua New Guinea, and the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. The case studies.......... 

An Evaluation of counterinsurgency as a Strategy for Fighting the Long War Baucum Fulk

The single greatest national security question currently facing the U.S. National Command Authority is how best to counter violent extremism. The National Command Authority has four broad strategies through which it may employ military forces to counter violent extremism: counterinsurgency, counterterrorism, support to insurgency, and antiterrorism. The Long War is anticipated to continue for decades, perhaps generations. Thus, it is imperative to select the best strategy or strategies for employing military forces. Based on historical lessons in combating terrorism, the best strategy is

efficient and sustainable and avoids overreacting, acting incompetently, or appearing to be either over reactive or incompetent.

Relearning Counterinsurgency Warfare
ROBERT R. TOMES © 2004 Robert R. Tomes
Thirty years after the signing of the January 1973 Paris peace agreement ending the Vietnam War, the United States finds itself leading a broad coalition of military forces engaged in peacemaking, nation-building, and now counterinsurgency warfare in Iraq. A turning point appeared in mid-October
2003 when US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld’s memo on the future of Iraqi operations surfaced. His musings about whether US forces were ready for protracted guerrilla warfare sparked widespread debate about US planning for counterinsurgency operations.

THE COUNTERINSURGENCY PARADIGM SHIFT Justin Lynch

It has been a challenging year for the Department of Defense. For more than a decade, Operation Iraqi Freedom and the ongoing conflict in Afghanistan highlighted the need for a modern military to be able to operate in complex human terrain. But even as the military continued to fight in Afghanistan, it also faced the budgetary uncertainties of sequestration. In this fiscally constrained environment, even given current events, counterinsurgency may return to a low priority. The DoD has reached a decision point; it is undergoing a paradigm shift, deciding what its capabilities will be in the aftermath of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. 

The Kurds in Post-Saddam Iraq.pdf

The London School of Economics, and Political Science - Maps into Nations:
Kurdistan, Kurdish Nationalism and International Society

The Wisdom of the Kurds: 100 Proverbs

Shooting Up

Counterinsurgency and the War on Drugs

http://www.au.af.mil/info-ops/iosphere/iosphere_summer06_kilcullen.pdf


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"Twenty-Eight Articles" Company level counterinsurgency - by Dr.David Kilcullen

(from wikipedia)
Kilcullen's paper "Twenty-Eight Articles"^[23] is a practical guide for junior officers and non-commissioned officers engaged in counter-insurgency operations in Afghanistan and Iraq. The paper's publication history is an illustration of new methods of knowledge propagation in the military-professional community. It first appeared as an e-mail that was widely circulated informally among U.S. Army and Marine officers in April 2006, and was subsequently published in Military Review in May 2006. Later versions of it were published in IoSphere and the Marine Corps Gazette, and it has been translated into Arabic, Russian, Pashtu and Spanish.^[24] It was later formalized as Appendix A to FM 3-24, the US military's counterinsurgency doctrine, and is in use by the US, Australian, British, Canadian, Dutch, Iraqi and Afghan armies as a training document.^[25]

Conflict ethnography[edit]

Kilcullen has argued in most of his works for a deeper cultural understanding of the conflict environment, an approach he has called conflict ethnography: "a deep, situation-specific understanding of the human, social and cultural dimensions of a conflict, understood not by analogy with some other conflict, but in its own terms."^[26] In the same essay, "Religion and Insurgency", published in May 2007 on the Small Wars Journal, he expanded this view:

The bottom line is that no handbook relieves a professional counterinsurgent from the personal obligation to study, internalize and interpret the physical, human, informational and ideological setting in which the conflict takes place. Conflict ethnography is key; to borrow a literary term, there is no substitute for a "close reading" of the environment. But it is a reading that resides in no book, but around you; in the terrain, the people, their social and cultural institutions, the way they act and think. You have to be a participant observer. And the key is to see beyond the surface differences between our societies and these environments (of which religious orientation is one key element) to the deeper social and cultural drivers of conflict, drivers that locals would understand on their own terms.^[26]

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Best counter insurgency resources

For those who are interested  in the study of counter insurgency ( COIN ) here are a few quick references

Dr. David Kilcullen - Aussie, studied COIN sing military college life wrote a paper for his dissertation that is still en excellent read, author of many books, a few are "the accidental guerrilla" "fighting small war amidst a large one? i think is title, oh best short read
28 articles: Fundamentals of Company-Level Counterinsurgency
http://www.au.af.mil/info-ops/iosphere/iosphere_summer06_kilcullen.pdf

John Nagel is US COIN and wrote how to eat soup with a knife

Roger Trinquier French late 1950 wrote one of the first books on insurgencies and his outline of what how a terrorist cell should be formed and function, he also warned US not to mess with Vietnam, a lot of people may not know French were in Vietnam before we went long before, and they was getting out !!

Petraeus has a good grasp and did excellent leadership during the surge in Iraq 2007

I will compile something more in depth soon and lots of links to their works but you can google them and look for published papers. practical use and application of COIN throughout history how and why it was resolved (always end political solution)