An edition of Countering insurgency in Iraq
(2005)
Countering insurgency in Iraq
improving security policies and instruments
by Stephen T. Hosmer
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Countering insurgency in Iraq: improving security policies and instruments
2005, RAND Corporation
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Recognize that the insurgency in Iraq is likely to be protracted
A multiplicity of groups and goals
A multiplicity of insurgent goals
Prospects and implications of a protracted conflict
Insurgents have largely been able to control and more than replace their losses
The insurgents have not been marginalized politically
Understand that improved intelligence will be a key to successful counterinsurgency
Actionable intelligence in Iraq has been poor
The insurgent threat has not lessened
U.S. forces have arrested many innocent persons
The impediments to acquiring actionable intelligence
Address the issues fueling opposition and inhibiting public cooperation
Make winning public support the centerpiece of counter-insurgency strategy
Ensure that elections are held as mandated
Make the elections a vehicle for rallying the Iraqi people to oppose the insurgents actively
Encourage the newly elected government to be inclusive and accommodating
Make restoring basic services and reducing unemployment high priorities
Accelerate the Iraqization process so that U.S. forces can be withdrawn at an early date
Minimize U.S. military actions that tend to alienate the Iraqi public
Avoid becoming inadvertent victims of "insurgent judo"
Build an effective Iraqi police service, special branch, and judicial system
Why the police deserve priority
Avoid overmilitarizing the counterinsurgency effort
Why the police are not ready
Make the training, equipping, and vetting of Iraq's police service a high priority
Expand the basic police mission to include intelligence collection on insurgents
Establish a special branch/type organization within the police service
Establish intelligence coordination and sharing structures
Establish local executive committees to integrate and manage counterinsurgency operations
Continue to reform Iraq's judicial and detention system
Be prepared to work with the police and judicial system over the long haul
Control infiltration and other external intervention
Iran and Syria are the greatest sources of interference
It is essential to bring external intervention under control
Mount a major diplomatic effort to induce Iraq's neighbors to restrain external intervention
Emphasize the risks of destabilization and the potential benefits of cooperation
Keep the klieg lights on external intervention
Promote a noninterference pact among Iraq's neighbors
Upgrade Iraq's border-control capabilities
Upgrade border police training
Ensure that border police and immigration officials are centrally controlled and sufficiently vetted, paid, and manned
Give the border police a robust intelligence capability
Provide the police with sufficient mobility and surveillance capabilities
Consider military support of the border police
Consider building a fence along the border with Syria
Make it more difficult for infiltrators to operate in Iraq
Degrade the infiltrators' support networks within Iraq
Make it easier to identify and track foreigners in Iraq
Deny insurgents internal sanctuary
Heed lessons from Vietnam
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