CSD Publications

For copies of these or other CSD publications, please contact the director, Dr. Jonathan Schroden.

Publically-Releasable Publications by the Center for Stability and Development (CSD)

• Irksome and Unpopular Duties: Pakistan’s Frontier Corps, Local Security Forces, and Counterinsurgency (2012)
• On the Ground in Afghanistan: Counterinsurgency in Practice (Marine Corps University Press, 2012)
• Acknowledging Limits: Police Advisors and Counterinsurgency in Afghanistan (Marine Corps University Press, 2011)
• Conscription in the Afghan Army: Compulsory Service versus an All Volunteer Force (2011)
• Counterinsurgency on the Ground in Afghanistan: How Different Units Adapted to Local Conditions (2010)
• How is Afghanistan Different from Al Anbar? (2009)
• What Went Right in Iraq (2009)

External Publications by CSD Analysts

• “A New Paradigm for Assessment in Counterinsurgency,” accepted by the MOR Journal, 2012.
• “Challenges of Measuring Progress in Afghanistan Using Violence Trends: The Effects of Aggregation, Military, Operations, Seasonality, Weather, and other Causal Factors,” Defense & Security Analysis, Vol. 28, No. 2 (June 2012).
• “The New Great Game,” National Interest (21 May 2012).
• “Why Operations Assessments Fail: It’s Not Just the Metrics,” Naval War College Review, Vol. 64, No. 4 (Autumn 2011).
• “10 Years Later: How We Won,” Atlantic.com (8 September 2011).
• “Tribal Customary Law and Legal Pluralism in Al Anbar, Iraq,” in Deborah Isser (ed.), Customary Justice and the Rule of Law in War Torn Societies. USIP Press Books (July 2011).
• “Afghan Ninjas,” National Interest (3 June 2011).
• “In Libya, Geography is Destiny,” Politico (April 2011).
• “Victory in Afghanistan Part 2: Countering the Taliban Narrative through Credible Religious Voices,” Marine Corps Gazette (January 2011).
• “Taking Soft Power Seriously,” Comparative Strategy, Vol. 29, No. 5 (November 2010).
• “Measures for Security in a Counterinsurgency,” Journal of Strategic Studies, Vol. 32, No. 5 (October 2009).
• Provincial Reconstruction Teams: How Do We Know They Work? (Strategic Studies Institute: Carlisle, PA), 2009.
• Counterinsurgency in Modern Warfare (Osprey Publishing: Westminster, MD), 2008.
• “Did the United States Need More Forces in Iraq? Evidence from Al Anbar,” Defence Studies, Vol. 8, No. 1 (February 2008).
• “A Thin Blue Line in the Sand,” Democracy, No. 5 (Summer 2007).
• “The Role of Perceptions and Political Reform in Counterinsurgency: The Case of Western Iraq, 2004–05,” Small Wars and Insurgencies, Vol. 17, No. 3 (August 2006).
• “Signaling resolve, democratization, and the first battle of Fallujah,” Journal of Strategic Studies, Vol. 29, No. 3 (August 2006).