I am in a political science methods class this quarter, and a research topic I came up with was to examine insurgencies over the past century to attempt to discover any factors that determine the success or failure of an insurgency. Much has been done in the recent decade and some before on the factors of counterinsurgency success specifically with manpower and force densities, but I would like to take the 4 types of insurgency(political, military, traditional/religious, urban) as described in the "Guide to the Analysis of an Insurgency", and discover which factors directly affect chances of success such as type vs regions, manpower, # of state allies, funding, etc and whatever else I can find data on. This will unfortunately be fairly limited as a quarter is only 10 weeks, and as of now, I've only got 8 weeks left. As such, I won't be able to do an exhaustive literature review (Mao, Kilcullen, etc) or code any sort of strategic approaches for the actors in any conflict.
I was hoping that some of the history/military/academic buffs that frequent this corner of the forum might be able to point me toward some organizations with solid data sets on both insurgencies and counterinsurgencies or point out some scholarly articles they might remember. I'm making my way through Small Wars Journal (which is a wealth of information) and found a great article that mentioned a lot of similar research for me to check out, but it can only help to ask people who have had a vested interest in this sort of conflict from firsthand experience.
SWJ article: Woodford, Shawn. "Manpower and Counterinsurgency." Small Wars Journal (2016): 27 Sept. 2016
I was hoping that some of the history/military/academic buffs that frequent this corner of the forum might be able to point me toward some organizations with solid data sets on both insurgencies and counterinsurgencies or point out some scholarly articles they might remember. I'm making my way through Small Wars Journal (which is a wealth of information) and found a great article that mentioned a lot of similar research for me to check out, but it can only help to ask people who have had a vested interest in this sort of conflict from firsthand experience.
SWJ article: Woodford, Shawn. "Manpower and Counterinsurgency." Small Wars Journal (2016): 27 Sept. 2016
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