Accession Number:

ADA564988

Title:

Acknowledging Limits: Police Advisors and Counterinsurgency in Afghanistan

Descriptive Note:

Monograph

Corporate Author:

CENTER FOR NAVAL ANALYSES ALEXANDRIA VA

Personal Author(s):

• Rosenau, William

Report Date:

2011-01-01

Pagination or Media Count:

102.0

Abstract:

The role of the police is an important but largely overlooked aspect of contemporary counterinsurgency and stability operations. Although academic and policy specialists have examined the role of police in postconflict environments, the question of how police should be organized, trained, and equipped for counterinsurgency campaigns has received little systematic attention.1 Similarly, U.S. military doctrine and the professional military literature, while not ignoring the subject entirely, do not consider it in any systematic way.2 This gap is particularly ironic, given the prominent role that soldiers and Marines have played in training indigenous police and other security forces in counterinsurgency campaigns from Vietnam to Afghanistan.

Descriptors:

• *COUNTERINSURGENCY
• *POLICE
• AFGHANISTAN
• MILITARY DOCTRINE
• MILITARY OPERATIONS
• MILITARY PERSONNEL

Subject Categories:

• Sociology and Law
• Unconventional Warfare

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE