This report is a companion report to the publication “Government Responses to Asymmetric Threats: The State of the Literature on Counterinsurgency from 2002-2022,” which outlined general trends in government response to asymmetric threats as part of the Global Responses to Asymmetric Threats project. The latter is part of a broader research effort, Irregular Warfare Net Assessment Data Structure (IW-NEADS), that aims to create a data resource for assessment, analysis, and prioritization across various pillars of irregular warfare. This report presents an overview of existing state of research on governments’ use of military lever of power in counterinsurgency (COIN) from 2002-2022.
About the Project
The Asymmetric Threat Analysis Center (ATAC), a joint program between START and UMD’s Applied Research Lab for Intelligence and Security (ARLIS), is funded by the Department of Defense under award no. HQ003421F0481. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this report are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Department of Defense.
Publication Information
Radziszewski, Elizabeth. 2024. “Government Responses to Asymmetric Threats: The State of the Literature on Counterinsurgency from 2002 to 2022—The Military Lever of Power.” Global Responses to Asymmetric Threats. College Park, MD: START (March).