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Taming of the Tigers: An MWI Contemporary Battlefield Assessment of the Counterinsurgency in Sri Lanka
From the Executive Summary: "This report examines one of the few militarily successful counterinsurgencies of the modern era: The 1983-2009 war against the Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka. We find that under select conditions, the application of brute force to isolate and kill off the senior leadership of an insurgency can lead to a decisive military victory and prevent a recidivism to violence. This report also argues that Sri Lanka's military 'learned' over the course of the three-decade war, and that by the final phase from 2005 to 2009, it was successful in updating its force structure, splitting the opposition, and using small-unit tactics to exploit the Tigers' control of territory and decision to fight conventionally after 2005. The Tigers applied 'hybrid-warfare' techniques, at times fighting a guerrilla war, carrying out terrorism strikes including suicide bombs, and deploying a conventional army, navy, and rudimentary air force. Over the course of two weeks in July- August 2016, a team of cadets and faculty from the United States Military Academy at West Point toured the battlefields of northern and eastern Sri Lanka, studying the terrain and tactics of fighters on both sides of the conflict, and interviewing scores of military leaders, Tamil opposition figures, journalists, activists, and victims of the civil war."
United States. Military Academy, West Point. Modern War Institute
Beehner, Lionel; Collins, Liam; Ferenzi, Steven . . .
2017-04
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Letters from Abbottabad: Bin Ladin Sidelined?
"This report is a study of 17 declassified documents captured during the Abbottabad raid and released to the Combating Terrorism Center (CTC). They consist of electronic letters or draft letters, totaling 175 pages in the original Arabic and 197 pages in the English translation. The earliest is dated September 2006 and the latest April 2011. Some of the letters are incomplete and/or are missing their dates, and not all of the letters explicitly attribute their author(s) and/or indicate the addressee. In addition to Bin Ladin, the recognizable individuals who appear in the letters either as authors or as recipients are `Atiyyatullah and Abu Yahya al-Libi, both of whom are al-Qa`ida leaders; Adam Yahya Gadahn, the American al-Qa`ida spokesman and media advisor; Mukhtar Abu al-Zubayr, the leader of the Somali militant group Harakat al-Shabab al-Mujahidin; Abu Basir (Nasir al-Wuhayshi), the leader of the Yemen-based al-Qa`ida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP); and Hakimullah Mahsud, the leader of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). Given the small collection of documents released to the CTC, it is impossible to construct a coherent evolution of al-Qa`ida or its current state. 'Letters from Abbottabad' is an initial exploration and contextualization of 17 documents that will be the grist for future academic debate and discussion."
Combating Terrorism Center (U.S.)
Lahoud, Nelly, 1972-; Caudill, Stuart; Collins, Liam
2012-05-03
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