Victory among people
Subtitle: lessons from countering insurgency and stabilising fragile states
By: edited by David Richards and Greg Mills ; forwords by Stanley McChrystal ... [et al.].
Contributors: Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies; Brenthurst Foundation
Publisher: Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 478
ISBN-13: 9780855161583; 9780855161637
Subjects: Counterinsurgency; Political stability; Nation-building; Insurgency
Notes: Published in association with the Brenthurst Foundation.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Forewords / Stanley McChrystal, Juan Manuel Santos, John A. Kufour, Soren Pind; title: Introduction: contemporary insurgency / Greg Mills and David Richards; title: A soldier's perspective on contemporary insurgency / David Richards; title: Contemporary insurgencies by preventing insurgencies / Paula G. Thornhill; title: From insurgency to stability to development: in Afghanistan as Africa / Anthony Arnott and Greg Mills; title: Special operations and instability: a military investment strategy / Michael A. Lewis; title: Intelligence in low-intensity conflicts: lessons from Afghanistan / Adam Cobb; title: The role of media operations / Christopher Vernon; title: Failure to communicate: "producing" the war in Afghanistan / David Betz; title: Ethiopia and Eritrea: the failure of counter-insurgency / Christopher Clapham; title: Peace-building in practice: a personal perspective on Liberia and the DRC / Alan Doss; title: The military role in political victory: South Africa, Namibia and apartheid / Greg Mills and David Williams; title: Who dares, loses? The relevance of Rhodesia-Zimbabwe / Greg Mills and Grahame Wilson; title: Rwanda: Putting the insurgency boot on the other foot / Greg Mills; title: Sierra Leone: 'Pregnant with lessons' / David Richards; title: Somalia: insurgency and legitimacy in the context of state collapse / J. Peter Pham; title: The campaign against the LRA: old wine in new bottles / Sandrine Perrot; title: Countering the terrorist insurgency in Bangladesh / A. N. M. Muniruzzaman; title: Countering the instability in Kashmir / Ved Prakash Malik; title: The Southern Thailand insurgency / Alastair Leithead; title: The lessons from Northern Ireland: comparisons with Iraq and Afghanistan / Chris Brown; title: Coke isn't it: changing a culture and image of violence in Colombia / Greg Mills; title: El Salvador: when the insurgents (finally) take over / Greg Mills.