deRaismes Combes on Why Counterinsurgency is the Source of Its Own Failure

Former Clements Postdoctoral Fellow M. L. deRaismes Combes published an article that she wrote while she was here at The University of Texas at Austin about the failures of counterinsurgency (“COIN”). She argues that COIN has led to protracted engagements with unclear and contradictory goals and that that this policy failure can be explained by rehabilitating the doctrine’s colonial heritage to its contemporary deployment.