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Colombian army adaptation to FARC insurgency / Thomas Marks.

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Format:
Book
Government document
Author/Creator:
Marks, Thomas A.
Contributor:
Army War College (U.S.). Strategic Studies Institute
Dante B. Fascell North-South Center (Fla.)
Series:
Implementing Plan Colombia special series
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia.
Counterinsurgency--Colombia.
Counterinsurgency.
National security--Colombia.
National security.
Democracy--Colombia.
Democracy.
Colombia--Politics and government--20th century.
Colombia.
Colombia--Strategic aspects.
Politics and government.
Strategic aspects of individual places.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (v, 44 pages) : illustrations, map.
Place of Publication:
Carlisle, PA : Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, [2002]
Language Note:
English.
Summary:
The author points out that Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) insurgents actively are pursuing a strategy to mobilize the disaffected and disposed people of Colombia, and to control the entire national territory. At the same time, he argues that no one in the national political establishment has taken the initiative to conduct an appropriate effort to deny FARC its objective. As a result, the Colombian Army has been left alone to direct the fight, without a coordinated and integrated national campaign plan or other resources that would allow for success. The author concludes that the Army has bought time, and there is still an opportunity for the United States to help Colombia deal with its insurgent threat in new ways.
Contents:
Introduction
Roots of the insurgency
Security force response
Refinement of military response
Dilemmas in systemic response
Contradictions guarantee pathos
Imperfect democracy struggles on.
Notes:
Title from title screen.
"Supplements a special series stemming from the conference entitled 'Implementing Plan Colombia: strategic and operational imperatives' ... cosponsored by the Dante B. Fascell North-South Center of the University of Miami and the Strategic Studies Institute of the U.S. Army War College."
"January 2002."
Includes bibliographical references.
Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011.
Other Format:
Marks, Thomas A. Colombian Army adaptation to FARC insurgency
OCLC:
49378309
Access Restriction:
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