IR 6637 - Counter Insurgency and Irregular Warfare

3 Semester Hour(s)

This course examines the development of Irregular Warfare (IW) since the Second World War. Various aspects of this type of warfare will be examined from the counter-insurgency (COIN) to Foreign Internal Defense (FID) conducted by three democracies: Britain, France, and the United States will be discussed. The central focus of this course will be American IW. Further, Irregular Operations on land, air, and sea will be thoroughly analyzed. There will also be a discussion role of technology in these type of conflicts.