BAN Kil Joo <br/><br/>
Making counterinsurgency work :   the effectiveness of the ROK military's independent operational control in Vietnam and Iraq/ 
Kil Joo Ban 
 -  2011 
<br/><br/> The Republic of Korea deployed forces in coalition counterinsurgency operations in Vietnam and Iraq but retained independent operation control and had higher levels of success. The article discusses this and concludes that distributed command will be more effective than unified command when conducting COIN operations. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>VIETNAM WAR<br/>IRAQ WAR<br/>SOUTH KOREA--ARMED FORCES<br/>COUNTERINSURGENCY--OPERATIONAL COMMAND