Badger52
07-11-2012, 06:28
I cannot access thru my work filter but the following comes to me this morning; will check it out from home. I did verify the links are present at SWJ. Link to both Volumes can be found at:
http://smallwarsjournal.com/blog/casebooks-on-insurgency-and-revolutionary-warfare
Here is an EXSUM from the Intro/Forward:
This project has been the vision of Paul Tompkins who is a
retired Special Forces Warrant Officer who works in the USASOC G3 and
has had the support of the senior Army SOF leadership (see forwards
from LTG Mulholland and (then BG) MG Sacolick below).
This is the first product of others that will be published on Human
Factors In Revolutions and Insurgencies as well as Undergrounds and
Auxiliaries. This anecdote is what it is like to be on a traditional
Special Forces A Team. We owe Paul Tompkins a huge thank you for his
vision and drive to accomplish this project.
"In a rare spare moment during a training exercise, the
Operational Detachment-Alpha (ODA) Team Sergeant took an old book down
from the shelf and tossed it into the young Green Beret’s lap.
“Read and learn.” The book on human factors considerations in
insurgencies was already more than twenty years old and very out of
vogue. But the younger sergeant soon became engrossed and took other
forgotten revolution-related texts off the shelf, including the 1962
Casebook on Insurgency and Revolutionary Warfare, which described the
organization of undergrounds and the motivations and behaviors of
revolutionaries. He became a student of the history of unconventional
warfare and soon championed its revival as a teaching subject for the
US Army Special Forces. When his country faced pop-up resistance in
Iraq and tenacious guerrilla bands in Afghanistan during the
mid-2000s, his vision of modernizing the research and reintroducing it
into standard education and training took hold.
This second volume owes its creation to the vision of that young
Green Beret, Paul Tompkins, and to the challenge that his sergeant, Ed
Brody, threw into his lap."
FOREWORD
Unconventional Warfare is the core mission and organizing
principle for US Army Special Forces. The Army is the only military
organization specifically trained and organized to wage Unconventional
Warfare. From their inception, Special Forces and Army Special
Operations Forces were largely focused on developing regional,
cultural, and language skills in recognition of the singular
importance of the human dimensions of war among the people. We have
consistently recognized the importance of dedicating intellectual
efforts to better understand the nature of our environment, the
motivations and behavior of our enemies.
Investment in our human capital is an essential part of developing and
maintaining sufficient capability to conduct Unconventional Warfare or
Unconventional Warfare-related operations in sensitive environments or
conditions.
In the 1960s, our predecessors had the Special Operations
Research Office (SORO) at American University produce a collection of
case studies on insurgent movements; these studies characterized the
motivations and behaviors of revolutionaries and insurgents.
The book provided rich reading and study for generations of scholars,
Green Berets, and other practitioners and is still a relevant part of
our professional literature today. That investment informed our
tactics and operations and set the tone for how US Army Special
Operations practiced irregular warfare.
Today we again find ourselves facing a dynamic, agile, and
flexible enemy whose motivations and behaviors have changed since our
historic studies. Our challenge is to understand today’s very capable,
intelligent, and adaptable enemy and to understand that enemy’s
relationship to relevant populations. We partnered with Johns Hopkins
scholars to build on the foundations of our historic case studies to
produce a new case-study series to help us better understand the
characteristics of the modern operational environment.
I strongly encourage the men and women of Army Special
Operations, the joint Special Operations community, and anyone whose
professional interest encompasses unconventional warfare and irregular
warfare to make these studies a fundamental part of their professional
reading and development. The understanding and successful practice of
Unconventional Warfare and Irregular Warfare demands our best
intellectual appreciation and application as much as it does
excellence within our tactical skill sets.
Strength and Honor,
Lieutenant General John F. Mulholland US Army, Commanding General
Hope this is helpful. The Tbl of Contents is a pretty interesting menu.
http://smallwarsjournal.com/blog/casebooks-on-insurgency-and-revolutionary-warfare
Here is an EXSUM from the Intro/Forward:
This project has been the vision of Paul Tompkins who is a
retired Special Forces Warrant Officer who works in the USASOC G3 and
has had the support of the senior Army SOF leadership (see forwards
from LTG Mulholland and (then BG) MG Sacolick below).
This is the first product of others that will be published on Human
Factors In Revolutions and Insurgencies as well as Undergrounds and
Auxiliaries. This anecdote is what it is like to be on a traditional
Special Forces A Team. We owe Paul Tompkins a huge thank you for his
vision and drive to accomplish this project.
"In a rare spare moment during a training exercise, the
Operational Detachment-Alpha (ODA) Team Sergeant took an old book down
from the shelf and tossed it into the young Green Beret’s lap.
“Read and learn.” The book on human factors considerations in
insurgencies was already more than twenty years old and very out of
vogue. But the younger sergeant soon became engrossed and took other
forgotten revolution-related texts off the shelf, including the 1962
Casebook on Insurgency and Revolutionary Warfare, which described the
organization of undergrounds and the motivations and behaviors of
revolutionaries. He became a student of the history of unconventional
warfare and soon championed its revival as a teaching subject for the
US Army Special Forces. When his country faced pop-up resistance in
Iraq and tenacious guerrilla bands in Afghanistan during the
mid-2000s, his vision of modernizing the research and reintroducing it
into standard education and training took hold.
This second volume owes its creation to the vision of that young
Green Beret, Paul Tompkins, and to the challenge that his sergeant, Ed
Brody, threw into his lap."
FOREWORD
Unconventional Warfare is the core mission and organizing
principle for US Army Special Forces. The Army is the only military
organization specifically trained and organized to wage Unconventional
Warfare. From their inception, Special Forces and Army Special
Operations Forces were largely focused on developing regional,
cultural, and language skills in recognition of the singular
importance of the human dimensions of war among the people. We have
consistently recognized the importance of dedicating intellectual
efforts to better understand the nature of our environment, the
motivations and behavior of our enemies.
Investment in our human capital is an essential part of developing and
maintaining sufficient capability to conduct Unconventional Warfare or
Unconventional Warfare-related operations in sensitive environments or
conditions.
In the 1960s, our predecessors had the Special Operations
Research Office (SORO) at American University produce a collection of
case studies on insurgent movements; these studies characterized the
motivations and behaviors of revolutionaries and insurgents.
The book provided rich reading and study for generations of scholars,
Green Berets, and other practitioners and is still a relevant part of
our professional literature today. That investment informed our
tactics and operations and set the tone for how US Army Special
Operations practiced irregular warfare.
Today we again find ourselves facing a dynamic, agile, and
flexible enemy whose motivations and behaviors have changed since our
historic studies. Our challenge is to understand today’s very capable,
intelligent, and adaptable enemy and to understand that enemy’s
relationship to relevant populations. We partnered with Johns Hopkins
scholars to build on the foundations of our historic case studies to
produce a new case-study series to help us better understand the
characteristics of the modern operational environment.
I strongly encourage the men and women of Army Special
Operations, the joint Special Operations community, and anyone whose
professional interest encompasses unconventional warfare and irregular
warfare to make these studies a fundamental part of their professional
reading and development. The understanding and successful practice of
Unconventional Warfare and Irregular Warfare demands our best
intellectual appreciation and application as much as it does
excellence within our tactical skill sets.
Strength and Honor,
Lieutenant General John F. Mulholland US Army, Commanding General
Hope this is helpful. The Tbl of Contents is a pretty interesting menu.