Local Rule: Historical Lessons for Creating Local Defense Forces

Long, Austin,Pezard, Stephanie,Loidolt, Bryce,Helmus, Todd C.

ISBN 10: 0833076590 / ISBN 13: 9780833076595

Published by RAND Corporation, 2012

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Local Rule: Historical Lessons for Creating Local Defense Forces
• Publisher: RAND Corporation
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0833076590
• ISBN 13: 9780833076595
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Analyzes the use and management of local defense forces in eight major counterinsurgencies from 1945 to the present‹Indochina, Algeria, South Vietnam, Oman, El Salvador, Southern Lebanon, Afghanistan,
and Iraq‹in order to inform U.S. and allied operations in Afghanistan as well as other current or future conflicts.

About the Author

Austin Long is an Assistant Professor at the School of International and Public Affairs and a Member of the Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies and the Harriman Institute for Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies at Columbia University. He was an analyst and advisor to Coalition forces in Iraq (2007 2008) and Afghanistan (2011 and 2013). He is author of On "Other War": Lessons from Five Decades of RAND Counterinsurgency Research.