In the paper I examine the tradeoffs typical of counterinsurgency warfare. I argue that counterinsurgency involves three main goals, but in real practice a counterinsurgent needs to choose two out of three. The impossible trilemma in counterinsurgency is that, in this type of conflict, it is impossible to simultaneously achieve: 1) force protection, 2) distinction between enemy combatants and noncombatants, and 3) the physical elimination of insurgents
Counterinsurgency's Impossible Trilemma / L. Zambernardi. - In: WASHINGTON QUARTERLY. - ISSN 0163-660X. - STAMPA. - 33:(2010), pp. 21-34. [10.1080/0163660X.2010.492722]
Counterinsurgency's Impossible Trilemma
ZAMBERNARDI, LORENZO
2010
Abstract
In the paper I examine the tradeoffs typical of counterinsurgency warfare. I argue that counterinsurgency involves three main goals, but in real practice a counterinsurgent needs to choose two out of three. The impossible trilemma in counterinsurgency is that, in this type of conflict, it is impossible to simultaneously achieve: 1) force protection, 2) distinction between enemy combatants and noncombatants, and 3) the physical elimination of insurgentsFile in questo prodotto:
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