TY  - BOOK
AU  - COHEN Raphael S
TI  - Just how important are "hearts and minds" anyway?: counterinsurgency goes to the polls 
PY  - 2014///
KW  - COUNTERINSURGENCY
KW  - HEARTS AND MINDS
N2  - Hearts and minds has, at least since the Malayan Emergency, been presented as a fundamentally important aspect of successful counterinsurgency, and the concept is integrated in the US military's counterinsurgency manual. However this article argues that there is little evidence to support hearts-and-minds claims, and says that polling data from Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan suggest hearts-and-minds may be a result rather than a cause of counterinsurgency success. Considers the implications of this for the relative importance attached to popular support in counterinsurgency strategy
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01402390.2014.881286
ER  -