Reconstruction Under Fire Unifying Civil and Military Counterinsurgency

by Gombert, David C.; Kelly, Terrence K.; Lawson, Brooke Stearns; Parker, Michelle; Colloton, Kimberly

• ISBN13: 9780833047052
• ISBN10: 0833047051
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-07-16
• Publisher: RAND Corporation

Summary

A RAND team with combined security and development expertise set out to learn how civilian counterinsurgency (civil COIN) (essential human services, political reform, physical reconstruction, economic development, and indigenous capacity-building) could be conducted more safely in the face of active insurgency, when it can do the most good. Here, they make recommendations for improving the security of civil COIN under fire.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. iii
Figures	p. ix
Tables	p. xi
Summary	p. xiii
Acknowledgments	p. xxiii
Abbreviations	p. xxv
Introduction	p. 1
Conceptual Bearings	p. 1
The Nature and Importance of Civil COIN	p. 7
Civil COIN, Violence, and Risk	p. 12
Context	p. 18
Method and Organization of the Monograph	p. 21
Three Cases	p. 23
Objectives and Criteria	p. 23
Nord-Kivu, DRC	p. 26
Background	p. 26
Context	p. 29
Threat	p. 31
Focus Areas	p. 32
Nangarhar, Afghanistan	p. 33
Background	p. 33
Context	p. 36
Threat	p. 38
Focus Areas	p. 39
Al Anbar, Iraq	p. 41
Background	p. 41
Context	p. 45
Threat	p. 46
Focus Areas	p. 48
Summary Observations and Analysis	p. 50
Integrated Analysis, Integrated Approach	p. 59
Civil-Military "Integration"	p. 59
The Nature of Civil COIN	p. 61
The Practicalities of Civil COIN	p. 68
A Network Model for Securing Civil COIN	p. 71
Co-location to Reduce and Manage Risk	p. 75
Integrating Security and Civil COIN Operations	p. 79
Current Efforts to Integrate and Secure Civil COIN	p. 83
Conclusion	p. 86
Security Requirements	p. 89
Modes of Providing Security	p. 93
Embedded Security	p. 94
Mobile Security	p. 97
Quick-Reaction Forces	p. 98
Information Sensing and Sharing	p. 100
Non-Lethal Capabilities	p. 103
Investments	p. 104
Summary	p. 107
Conclusions	p. 109
Summary of Key Findings	p. 110
Recommendations	p. 117
General Principles	p. 117
Further Analysis	p. 118
Concluding Thoughts	p. 119
About the Authors	p. 121
Bibliography	p. 125
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