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Irregular Warfare: Selected Documents

This LibGuide contains information on irregular warfare. Researchers can find information gathered electronically in one location. Links to websites, newsfeeds, the library catalog, suggested databases, and selected reports are provided.

Terrorism & US Policy 1968-2002

Search this database of primary source documents from the National Security Archives, Terrorism & U.S. Policy Collection.

Digital National Security Archive

Think Tank Reports

Assessing Irregular Warfare: A Framework for Intelligence Analysis - 2008
RAND Rpt.
The 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review: A+, F, or Dead on Arrival?
Fitzgerald and Cordesman, CSIS, Draft, Aug 2009.
Afghanistan Index: Tracking Variables of Reconstruction & Security in Post-9/11 Afghanistan
Livingston, I., Messera, H., O'Hanlon, M. Brookings Institution (2010)
Pakistan Index: Tracking Variables of Reconstruction and Security (2010)
Livingston, I., O'Hanlon, M. Brookings Institution (2010)
Fixing Intel: A Blueprint for Makig Intelligence Relevant in Afghanistan (2010)
Flynn, M. T., Pottinger, M., Batchelor, P. CNAS, (2010)
A New Dynamic in the Western Hemisphere Security Environment: The Mexican Zetas & other Private Armi
M. Manwaring, Strategic Studies Inst. US Army War College, 2009.

The Future of Irregular Warfare
RAND Report, 2012.
Slow and Steady: Improving U.S.-Arab Cooperation to Counter Irregular Warfare
Center for a New American Security, 2019.

Links to reports

UN Al-Qaida and Taliban Sanctions Committee
Security Council 1267 Committee list of individuals and entites and activities associated with Al-Qaida, Osama Bin Laden, Taliban.
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Updated 2008
UN Report - Corruption in Afghanistan: Bribery as Reported by Victims (2010)
Based on interviews with 7,600 people in 12 provincial capitals and more than 1,600 villages around Afghanistan between autumn 2008 and autumn 2009.

Military& Government Documents

CRS Reports

Recent Congressional Research Service reports

International Terrorism and Transnational Crime: Security Threats, U.S. Policy, and... (2010)
Rollins, J., Wyler, L. S., Rosen, S. Jan. 2010
Afghanistan: Politics, Elections, and Government Performance (2009)
Katzman, Kenneth. CRS, 2 Nov. 2009
Afghanistan: Post-Taliban Governance, Security, and U.S. Policy (2009)
Katzman, Kenneth. CRS, 6 Oct. 2009
FY2010 Depart. of Homeland Security Assistance to States and Localities (2009)
Reese, Shawn. CRS. 5 Nov. 2009
Iraq: Post-Saddam Governance and Security (2009)
Katzman, Kenneth. CRS, 28 Oct. 2009
Navy Irregular Warfare and Counterterrorism Operations: Background and Issues fro Congress (2016)
O'Rourke, Ronald. CRS, 19 Aug. 2016
Afghanistan: Narcotics and U.S. Policy (2009)
Blanchard, CRS, Oct. 2009
Terrorism Information Sharing and the Nationwide Suspicious Activity Report Initiative: Background a
Randol, CRS, 5 Nov. 2009
The Cost of Iraq, Afghanistan, and Other Global War on Terror Operations Since 9/11(2009)
Belasco, Amy. CRS, 28 Sept. 2009

More Articles/Reports/Documents

Breaking Down “Hearts and Minds”: The Power of Individual Causal Mechanisms in an Insurgency (2013)
Manea, Octavian. Small Wars Journal.
Irregular Warfare Capabilities Remain a Top Priority for DoD (2008)
Tim Kilbride, American Forces Press Service.
The Master Plan: How to Stop ISIS (2014)
Harrison, Ross; Ryan, Michael W. The National Interest.
Navy Irregular Warfare and Counterterrorism Operations
O'Rourke, Ronald. Council on Foreign Relations.
Some Thoughts on Irregular Warfare: A different kind of threat (2007)
Jeffrey White, Central Intelligence Agency