Counterinsurgent Learning: Evidence from Afghanistan and Iraq

• In Event: Assessing Counterinsurgency & Counter Terrorism

Brief Overview

How do armies adapt to counterinsurgency? This paper examines evidence from US military deployments from 2004 to 2014 to see whether the length and number of tours are correlated with improved unit effectiveness.

Authors

• Ethan Bueno De Mesquita, University of Chicago

• Chris Price, Yale University

• Andrew Curtis Shaver, Harvard University