Military model shows why defeating insurgent groups like Taliban is so difficult

Thursday, July 16, 2009 - 11:21 in Mathematics & Economics

Insurgent groups like the Taliban can only be effectively engaged with timely and accurate military intelligence, and even good intelligence may only succeed in containing the insurgency, not defeating it, according to a new study in the current issue of Operations Research, a flagship journal of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS®).

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