TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jensen,Geoffrey
ED  - US Army War College.
TI  - War and insurgency in the Western Sahara
SN  - 1584875690
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Carlisle, PA
PB  - Strategic Studies Institute and U.S. Army War College Press
KW  - Western Sahara
KW  - counterinsurgency
KW  - insurgency
KW  - USA
KW  - foreign policy
KW  - Morocco
KW  - military history
KW  - strategy
N1  - SIP1307; "May 2013."; Includes bibliographical references (pages 79-89); Introduction -- The role of geography -- Ideologies and organizations -- Insurgency and counterinsurgency : military methods and developments -- Recommendations
N2  - At a crucial crossroads between Africa and Europe, the Mediterranean and the Atlantic, and the "Arab World" and the West, Morocco has long had a special place in U.S. diplomacy and strategic planning. Since September 11, 2001, Morocco's importance to the United States has only increased, and the more recent uncertainties of the Arab Spring and Islamist extremism have further increased the value of the Moroccan-American alliance. Yet one of the pillars of the legitimacy of the Moroccan monarchy, its claim to the Western Sahara, remains a point of violent contention. Home to the largest functional military barrier in the world, the Western Sahara has a long history of colonial conquest and resistance, guerrilla warfare and counterinsurgency, and evolving strategic thought, and its future may prove critical to U.S. interests in the region
UR  - http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pubs/download.cfm?q=1152
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