Bullets Not Ballots: Success in Counterinsurgency Warfare
Speaker: Jacqueline L. Hazelton, Associate, International Security Program
In her new book, the speaker challenges the claim that winning "hearts and minds" is critical to successful counterinsurgency campaigns. Good governance, this conventional wisdom holds, gains the besieged government popular support, denies support to the insurgency, and enables military and political victory. Hazelton argues that major counterinsurgent successes since World War II have resulted not through democratic reforms but rather through the use of military force against civilians and the co-optation of rival elites.
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