Lecture Two Friday September 21 2007

Conducting Insurgent & Counterinsurgent Operations

What are factors influencing the conduct of insurgent and counterinsurgent operations? Politics? Terrain? Technology?

1. Galula

Galula, D., Counterinsurgency Warfare: Theory & Practice. (New York: Praeger
Publications, 1964), chptr 2 (The Prerequisites for a Successful Insurgency), 3
(The Insurgency Doctrine).
Galula_Reading-_UNI360Y1-web.pdf