Lessons on Counterinsurgency from the Human Body
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Are there parallels between insurgencies and illness? Or between healthy bodies and healthy nations? Innovative new thinking argues that indeed there are. As understanding in various related disciplines grows, targeted responses are often able to alleviate at least some of the problems.
On December 19, two Yale University professors, Stanley McChrystal (retired General, U.S. Army) and Kristina Talbert-Slagle, an associate research scientist at Yale Global Health Leadership Institute, presented their model of counterinsurgency warfare that likens that mission to the way in which the human body fights infectious disease. The presentation was not intended to produce specific recommendations for any particular ongoing or prospective operation abroad, but it did have interesting and potentially significant implications for the future of counterinsurgency warfare and for how the U.S. government prepares for such possible future missions.
Read a summary of this event on the Brookings Now blog.
Agenda
Presentation
General Stanley A. McChrystal (ret.)
CEO and Chairman - The McChrystal Group
Former Commander - International Security Assistance Force (Afghanistan)
Former Commander - U.S. Joint Special Operations Command
Kristina Talbert-Slagle
Associate Research Scientist - Yale Global Health Leadership Institute, Yale University
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