Publication

This paper explores the role that cultural knowledge should play in counterinsurgency strategy. The author argues that although the importance of cultural awareness and understanding of adversary societies has been widely recognized as essential to operations and tactics on the battlefield, its significance has been largely ignored in formulating the broader strategic goals of counterinsurgency. The paper highlights the importance of such an awareness in formulating a broad strategy for counterinsurgency which also has wide-ranging implications for US foreign policy.