Defeating complex insurgency : beyond Iraq and Afghanistan /
John Mackinlay
- London: RUSI, 2005
- xii, 66 p.
- Whitehall paper . 64 .
If efforts to defeat a global insurgency are to be successful then the adversary must be much better defined and understood than it is at present. Al Qaeda is not a vertical organization but a structureless network that grows organically and responds instinctively to events.