Strategy in Counterinsurgency: A Distilled Approach

Spyridon Plakoudas

Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, 2015, vol. 38, issue 2, 132-145

Abstract: How does an established state authority respond to an insurgency? How does such an authority plan and carry out its struggle to counter an armed non-state actor and why? The issue of strategy in counterinsurgency (COIN) remains a rather contentious subject and several practitioners and theorists on COIN have prescribed various remedies to the same problem. This article offers a re-evaluation of the concept of strategy in COIN and outlines the practices and mentalities that counterinsurgents should adopt (and avoid) to successfully counter an insurgency.

Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1080/1057610X.2014.977000

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