Sharing the load: factors in supporting local armed groups in insurgencies |
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| Authors: | Lawrence E Cline |
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| Institution: | Criminal Justice Department, Buffalo State College, Buffalo, New York, USA |
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| Abstract: | Most counterinsurgency campaigns have featured the use of some form of local defense forces. Such forces have had a somewhat mixed record, both in their usefulness in actually countering insurgents and in their longer-term impact on internal security. This article focuses on historical cases that provide lessons for the best operational and strategic uses of local defense forces and measures to control their activities. |
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| Keywords: | Insurgency counterinsurgency local defense forces militias village security |
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