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Counterinsurgency on the Ground in Afghanistan
November 15, 2010

This book provides a glimpse into what relatively small military units—teams, platoons, companies, and highly dispersed battalions—have done to roll back the insurgency in some of the more remote areas of Afghanistan. The focus is on counterinsurgency at the tactical and local levels.

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Soviet Intervention in Afghanistan: Never Again?
October 1, 1991
On September 26 and 27, the Center for Naval Analyses brought together Soviet and American experts on the war in Afghanistan to dicuss the lessons of the war, its effect on Soviet society, and its impact on Soviet policy in the Third World. Contrasting interests and views produced a wide-ranging discussion that mixed analysis with anecdotes from the Soviet participants' own experiences in Afghanistan. From this variety of perspectives emerged a few common themes; key among them was that the Soviet army was sent into a country about which it knew very little to fight a war for which it was unprepared.
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A Possible Change in Soviet Views on the Prospects for Anti-Submarine Warfare
January 1, 1985
Provides an overview of an apparent shift in Soviet views on the future potential for combating submarines.
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ANTIAIR WARFARE DEFENSE OF SHIPS AT SEA
September 1, 1981
This paper discusses AAW defense of ships in general, identifies problem areas, and presents possible solutions to outer air, point defense, and area defense problems.
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GAME WARDEN
September 1, 1976
Game Warden, the U.S. Navy/Vietnamese Navy river patrol operation conducted in South Vietnam's Delta Region, is described. Enemy resupply and logistic routes and infiltration options are examined. Game Warden's response to the threat and limitations of that response are discussed.
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DEFENSE AGAINST KAMIKAZE ATTACKS IN WORLD WAR II AND ITS RELEVANCE TO ANTI-SHIP MISSILE DEFENSE, VOL I, AN ANALYTICAL HISTORY OF KAMIKAZE ATTACKS AGAINST SHIPS OF THE UNITED STATES NAVY DURING WORLD WAR II
April 1, 1975
Examines the experience of the US Navy in countering attacks by Japanese suicide aircraft (Kamikaze) in World War II, and provides an analytical history of the Kamikaze program and develops estimates of the effectiveness of the Kamikaze and of efforts to counter it. Statistics on results in the Philippine and Okinawan Campaigns are used to establish estimates of the effectiveness of defense at various states--attack at the source, defense by interceptors, defense by anti-aircraft guns, and the like. These estimates are used to provide a model of overall effectiveness.
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ANTISUBMARINE WARFARE IN WORLD WAR II
June 1, 1974
This report on Antisubmarine Warfare (ASW) represents a compromise between two major aims, to produce a unified summary of the events and problems of the antisubmarine war on the one hand, and to illustrate the scientific evaluation of naval operations on the other. The approach is fundamentally historical on both accounts.
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THE EFFECTIVENESS OF A-1 BOMBING ATTACKS ON BRIDGES
April 1, 1965

This study determines the effectiveness of various A-1 aircraft payloads against bridges. The optimum load, regardless of bridge type, consists of eight 500 pound bombs plus additional ordnance as permitted by radius, loading time, and weight considerations. The effects of different intervalometer settings and approach angles are also analyzed: effectiveness is reduced if long intervalometer settings are used, but is insensitive to approach angle if the optimum setting is used. Data for adjusting the effectiveness estimate to reflect variations in bridge size and delivery accuracy are also provided.

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