Counterinsurgency Research Articles

Some Medical Aspects of Counter Revolutionary War

Some Medical Aspects of Counter Revolutionary War

The Art of Counter-Revolutionary War.

The Art of Counter-Revolutionary War.

The Art of Counter-Revolutionary War: The Strategy of Counter-insurgency

The Art of Counter-Revolutionary War: The Strategy of Counter-insurgency

The Long, Long War, Counterinsurgency in Malaya and Vietnam. By Richard L. Clutterbuck. New York: Frederick A. Praeger, Publishers, 1966. xiv, 206 pp. Maps and Charts, Appendices, Bibliography, Index. $5.95.

The Long, Long War, Counterinsurgency in Malaya and Vietnam. By Richard L. Clutterbuck. New York: Frederick A. Praeger, Publishers, 1966. xiv, 206 pp. Maps and Charts, Appendices, Bibliography, Index. $5.95.

Counter‐Insurgency

Counter‐Insurgency

Planning, mobility, and counter guerrilla warfare

The process of solution identification is defined and structured as one of the four key components of the R & D planning process. Within the process some workable concepts of mobility are derived relating to the time factor in military operations. Data for the ballistic projectile hardware family are used to illustrate mobility capabilities. The counter guerrilla strategy of reaction to guerrilla actions is discussed and illustrative mobility requirements resulting from the strategy are displayed. A counter guerrilla system is deduced functionally and its mobility component is highlighted. Finally, the system feasibility test is described for the counter guerrilla mission, both for single targets and target complexes.

Unconventional Warfare: American and Soviet Approaches

Unconventional warfare is a weapons system of hot and cold wars which is utilized for achievement of political and military goals. It is a type of warfare used equally by conventional military forces, paramilitary organizations, and civilian populations. The Sino-Soviet bloc's governments consider it an indispensable weapon of their political and military aggression and for promoting the goals of world com munism. It has become the principal weapon of revolutionary and anticolonial movements and of wars of liberation. The preparedness of the United States and her allies in meeting such wars intelligently and effectively must be much more than of a military nature. The battle must be waged for the minds and hearts of peoples. The character of counter insurgency requires techniques of a pacifying rather than a destructive nature. The United States national strategy and policy in regard to unconventional warfare can be used for safeguarding United States and allied interests in the period of peaceful coexistence; for the protection of rear areas and communication zones of United States expeditionary forces in both limited and general war; as an offensive and defensive weapons system for supporting the United States and allied total war effort; and, finally, for the protection of vital in dustrial complexes and key industries in the United States and in allied and friendly countries in the event of general war.

Canada at the Crossroads in Foreign Policy

Foreign policy rests on an interpretation of observed facts and events. These interpretations are never given in the sense of being contained in the events. They are assumptions or hypotheses which are used to relate the events in some sort of causal order, that enables us to understand them, as we say, and to make predictions about what is likely to happen. Policy then consists in the formation of purposive action to influence the causal order of events and to protect, as far as possible, the interests of one's own country in the expected contingencies. Discussions of foreign policy in Canada, both in the press and, sometimes, in official circles, have too frequently not been based on sound assumptions. There is a tendency to believe that invective and violent denunciation are acceptable substitutes for calm, scientific thinking. Indeed there is a fundamental misunderstanding of the nature of scientific methods of thought. The leaders of the Soviet Union possess a system of working assumptions, derived a priori from the Marxist philosophy. They believe that Western capitalism is doomed to further crises and depressions, that these will seriously disturb the whole social framework with revolutionary and counter-revolutionary forces, and that, before the leaders of Western capitalism accept social elimination, they will plunge the world into a counterrevolutionary war. The Soviet Union, they believe, will be the principal object of aggression in such a war. The utterances of certain irresponsible members of the United States Congress, of certain business leaders, and the hysterical maledictions of a large section of the American press are taken as empirical evidence supporting the basic Marxist doctrine. The leaders of the Soviet Union, therefore, have the responsibility of putting Russia, the base of world communism, in the strongest possible attitude of defence. The classic invasion routes must be secured,