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DTIC ADA471380: Emerging Requirements for U.S. Counterinsurgency: An Examination of the Insurgency in the Niger River Delta Region

Since early 2002, the U.S. military has relearned counterinsurgency (COIN) at the tactical, operational, and strategic levels of war for both special operations and conventional forces to meet the security and stability requirements of both Afghanistan and Iraq after major combat operations ceased. While the U.S. military is now developing a comprehensive COIN strategy and practice suitable to the specific requirements of those theaters, variations of insurgency are growing, or are already established, in areas of the world critical to U.S. national security interests. These insurgencies are w…