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Saturday, November 21, 2009 7:49 PM

Published 11/02/2009 by World Politics Review


Leadership-Centric Counterinsurgency

Over at Kings of War, of Mark Moyar's book on leadership in counterinsurgency, 'A Question of Command.' According to Broadwell's reading (I haven't read the book itself), Moyar presents an alternative to the dominant population-centric approach to COIN, whereby the civilian population...

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