U.S. Must Kill LRA's Child Soldiers for Victory in Uganda
source: http://www.parapolitical.com/post/11578634960#ixzz1b4RlYOzY
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As the United States prepares to send 100 armed troops to Uganda to battle the Lord’s Resistance Army, we revisit a post we made several months ago that calculates the potential for an armed group’s collapse following a decapitation strike on the group’s leadership. Our chart specifically highlighted the LRA and would seem to suggest U.S. forces would best serve their mission objective by engaging and destroying the LRA’s legions of child soldiers instead of targeting the group’s command structure, a grisly prospect.
A paper by Dr. Jenna Jordan, presented at the 2010 meeting of the International Studies Association, looks at the potential for collapse of a non-state military group following elimination of the group’s leadership by police or military action. In general, Jordan’s survey finds, the older a group is the less likely it is to collapse following a decapitation strike. Additionally, religiously motivated groups are highly resistant to attacks on their leadership, while separatist and ideologically-motivated organizations are easier to destabilize through decapitation.
Read more: http://www.parapolitical.com/post/11578634960#ixzz1b4RlYOzY
A paper by Dr. Jenna Jordan, presented at the 2010 meeting of the International Studies Association, looks at the potential for collapse of a non-state military group following elimination of the group’s leadership by police or military action. In general, Jordan’s survey finds, the older a group is the less likely it is to collapse following a decapitation strike. Additionally, religiously motivated groups are highly resistant to attacks on their leadership, while separatist and ideologically-motivated organizations are easier to destabilize through decapitation.
Read more: http://www.parapolitical.com/post/11578634960#ixzz1b4RlYOzY
