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Strike and destroy : when Counter-insurgency doctrine met Hellraisers Brigade or, the fate of Corporal Morlock / Stjepan G. Mestrovic

Author
Meštrović, Stjepan Gabriel
Additional Titles
When Counter-insurgency (COIN) doctrine met Hellraisers Brigade and Fate of Corporal Morlock
Published
New York : Algora Pub., [2012]
Copyright Date
©2012
Physical Description
1 online resource (xii, 301 pages) : illustrations
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Summary
How could the Maywand District killings (or the kill team war crimes) have happened? Jeremy Morlock was convicted of premeditated murder, but numerous other questionable kills in his brigade, committed by other soldiers in other units in 2010, were never investigated. The brigade commander went by the name Hellraiser, and an internal army investigation revealed that the officers of the brigade were hopelessly confused as to their mission. No one knew if they should obey the chain of command and "do COIN," in other words, "sit down for tea with the village elders, or carry out Hellraisers and the armys traditional counter-guerrilla doctrine. Hellraisers refusal to carry out COIN doctrine led to complete social dysfunction in the brigade. Normal army standards of discipline, drug testing, group cohesion, mentoring, counseling, among other standards, were abandoned. Prof. Mestrovic connects the social dysfunction in Hellraisers brigade with Morlocks crime. He shows that COIN doctrine was treated as a joke in the brigade while a Strike and Destroy mentality was dominant. This inside account relies upon an internal army investigation into the command climate of Hellraiser's brigade, conducted by Brigadier General Stephen Twitty, along with court-martial transcripts and direct interviews. This book analyzes one war crime incident as an example of the general failure, or refusal, to implement COIN doctrine in Afghanistan.
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ISBN
0875869114 (electronic bk.)
9780875869117 (electronic bk.)
9780875869094 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0875869092 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780875869100 (hbk. ; alk. paper)
0875869106 (hbk. ; alk. paper)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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