WAR ON TERROR: OEF APPENDIX – List of Known National Caveats Imposed by OEF Troop Contributing Nations (TCNs) on National Armed Forces Deployed to Afghanistan, 2001-2012 Dr Regeena Kingsley PDF – OEF APPENDIX – List of National Caveats Imposed by OEF TCNs on National Armed Forces Deployed to Afghanistan, 2001-2012 (2 pages)
WAR ON TERROR: ‘Triumphs after Trials’ Progress Report, 2001-2021
WAR ON TERROR: (THE DELIBERATE, PLANNED &/OR EXECUTED MASS-MURDER OF INNOCENT UNARMED CIVILIANS FOR ISLAMIST POLITICAL OR RELIGIOUS PURPOSES) ‘Triumphs after Trials’ Progress Report 2001-2021
#40 In Videos: An International, Multilateral, Political & Strategic Failure – The Fall of Kabul & the Lamentable Loss of the Anti-Terror & Democratic Republic of Afghanistan, 2001-2021
In Videos: The calamitous political and military decisions taken by short-sighted governments in multiple Capitals, to rapidly end the Afghan theatre of war in the overall and ongoing Global War on Terror, and the resulting and hugely consequential developments and events that followed on the ground for the country and the people of Afghanistan, that has shocked, changed, and threatened the entire world. Important videos.
#39 Farewell Fallen Friend: Democratic Afghan Republic, 2001-2021
The tricolour flag, leaders, military personnel, and civilian citizens of a dead democratic country, the Democratic Afghan Republic, abandoned to die by the American President Joe Biden, and assisted in this political, strategic and national tragedy, with profoundly dire security consequences in the global struggle against Islamist terrorism, by collectively complicit and complacent allies and leading intergovernmental organisations around the world, in their mutually shared if short-sighted preoccupation and desire for a fast and final end to the long but vital Afghan War against terror forces in Central-South Asia.
ISAF – COIN APPENDIX 1 – Insurgency: History, Definitions, Characteristics, Psychological Nature, Warfare & Life Cycle
In a previous blog ‘#31 BACKGROUND – COIN Warfare & the ISAF’s COIN Strategy: Battle for the Majority Population’, I briefly outlined the central theoretical doctrine and most important principles of Counter-Insurgency (COIN) warfare. This appendix consists of a more in-depth examination of insurgencies and is offered in the hope of supplying important additional information to political and military practitioners, with regard to insurgent armed rebellions and the politico-military counter-insurgency warfare required by governing authorities and their civilian and military forces to quell them. In particular, this appendix will address: (1) insurgency as a common form of warfare in human history; (2) several definitions of insurgency; (3) the central characteristics of insurgencies; (4) the psychological nature of insurgency warfare, and the 4 psychological effects insurgents seek to inflict on established governing authorities; (5) the 3 main forms of warfare used by insurgents, namely terrorism, guerrilla tactics and conventional war; (6) the life cycle of an insurgency, from beginning to end; and lastly (7) the inherent uniqueness of each particular insurgency.
#24 Laws of War Brief (Part 1): What is the Law of Armed Conflict & Customary International Law?
#24 Laws of War Brief (Part 1): What is the Law of Armed Conflict & Customary International Law? – Dr Regeena Kingsley ‘How the malice of the wicked was reinforced by the weakness of the virtuous.’[1] – Winston S. Churchill In previous blogs I have presented case-studies of Multinational Operations (MNOs) in Rwanda, Bosnia and Kosovo, in which participating national forces – bound by government-imposed national caveat constraints – failed to use lethal force at the critical and necessary moments in order to fully uphold or pursue the primary security objectives of their security mission mandates. In