An edition of Counterinsurgency scorecard (2011)

Counterinsurgency scorecard

Afghanistan in early 2011 relative to the insurgencies of the past 30 years

Counterinsurgency scorecard
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An edition of Counterinsurgency scorecard (2011)

Counterinsurgency scorecard

Afghanistan in early 2011 relative to the insurgencies of the past 30 years

The previously published RAND monograph, Victory Has a Thousand Fathers: Sources of Success in Counterinsurgency, used detailed case studies of the 30 insurgencies worldwide begun and completed between 1978 and 2008 to analyze correlates of success in counterinsurgency (COIN). A core finding was that a case's score on a scorecard of 15 equally weighted good and 12 equally weighted bad COIN factors and practices perfectly predicted the outcome of those 30 insurgencies. That is, the balance of good and bad factors and practices correlated with either a COIN win (insurgency loss) or a COIN loss (insurgency win) in the overall case. Using the scorecard approach as its foundation, a RAND project sought to extend the findings to the case of Afghanistan in early 2011. The effort involved an expert elicitation, or Delphi, exercise in which experts were asked to make "worst-case" assessments of the factors to complete the scorecard for ongoing operations in Afghanistan. The consensus results revealed that early 2011 Afghanistan scores in the middle of the historical record in terms of COIN wins and losses: its score was lower than that in the lowest-scoring historical COIN win but higher than that in the highest-scoring COIN loss. This suggests an uncertain outcome in Afghanistan, but the findings may help provide additional guidance as operations continue.

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RAND Corporation
Language
English
Pages
19

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 19).

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Santa Monica, CA
Series
Occasional paper -- OP-337-OSD, Occasional paper (Rand Corporation) -- OP-337-OSD.
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Afghanistan in early 2011 relative to the insurgencies of the past thirty years

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Library of Congress
U241 .P373 2011, U241 .P393 2011

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Pagination
v, 19 p.
Number of pages
19

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Open Library
OL30517148M
ISBN 10
0833052489
ISBN 13
9780833052483
LCCN
2011283881
OCLC/WorldCat
740456789

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