David H. Ucko, Ph.D., researches counterinsurgency and civil wars. He is the author of The New Counterinsurgency Era: Transforming the U.S. Military for Modern Wars (Georgetown University Press, 2009) and the editor, with Mats Berdal, of Reintegrating Armed Groups After Conflict (Routledge, 2009).
7.Dec.2009 at 7 | David Ucko
Counterinsurgency theory emphasises that understanding your environment – its politics, economics, history and culture – matters, a lot. Counterinsurgents must understand the area’s formal and informal structures and actors, the relation between them, as well as the fears, aspirations and mindsets of the people among whom they will operate. These types of exhortations are made [...]
26.Oct.2009 at 26 | David Ucko
This is a little dated but nonetheless very much worth checking out: it is an interview by Kimberley Kagan of COL J. B. Burton, then commander of the 2nd BCT, 1st Infantry Division (Dagger Brigade). The interview covers, in some detail, the Dagger Brigade’s tour in north-west Baghdad in 2006-07. This preceded the official change [...]
22.Oct.2009 at 22 | David Ucko
I was really taken by this paper on Operation Arrowhead Ripper in Iraq, in which Colonel Fred Johnson talks about his 15-month tour as the Deputy Commander of 3-2 Stryker Brigade Combat Team (SBCT) and comments on its configuration, as stands, for operations across the spectrum.
Certainly from the lay-out of its structure, and from anecdotal [...]
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