TY - BOOK AU - BAN Kil Joo TI - Making counterinsurgency work: the effectiveness of the ROK military's independent operational control in Vietnam and Iraq PY - 2011/// CY - KW - VIETNAM WAR KW - IRAQ WAR KW - SOUTH KOREA KW - ARMED FORCES KW - COUNTERINSURGENCY KW - OPERATIONAL COMMAND N2 - 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 ER -