Twenty-Eight Articles
Fundamentals of Company-level Counterinsurgency
by
David Kilcullen
This paper reflects the author’s personal judgments and does not represent the views of any department or agency of the U.S. Government or any other government.

Introduction
Your company has just been warned for deployment on counterinsurgency operations in Iraq or Afghanistan. You have read David Galula, T.E. Lawrence and Robert Thompson. You have studied FM 3-24 and now understand the history, philosophy and theory of counterinsurgency. You watched Black Hawk Down and The Battle of Algiers, and you know this will be the most difficult challenge of your life.
But what does all that theory mean, at the company level? How do the principles translate into action – at night, with the GPS down, the media criticizing you, the locals complaining in a language you don’t understand, and an unseen enemy killing your people by ones and twos? How does counterinsurgency actually happen?......

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Title: 28 Articles Of Counter-Insurgency
Approximate Word Count: 6237
Approximate Pages: 25 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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