The afterlives of counterinsurgency : postcolonialism, military social science, and Afghanistan 2006-2012

This dissertation examines the United States military’s counterinsurgency campaign in Afghanistan from 2006-2012. In recent years, the U.S. military has relied upon the methods and research of social scientists to model the Taliban-led insurgency in southern Afghanistan in hopes of predicting and mi...

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Main Author: Belcher, Oliver Christian
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2013
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/45520