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What Are the Implications of Localization of Insurgency?
The notion of creating a strong centralized government in these areas will run up against too much local resistance. The violence always has to be part of insurgency or else you're talking about a social movement organization and that would require a different tool for it all together, he says. As insurgencies begin to innovate based on the needs presented by the insurgents dilemma, what is the proper balance of civilian and military responses in order to counter that? "I don't expect perhaps policymakers to become political theorists and to rethink the barrier norms but ultimately there should be a clear policy"