The  shocking events of the Moscow airport terrorist attack make it clear  that the North Caucasus insurgency is still strong – despite the  Kremlin’s announcement in 2008 that the conflict was “over.” For  the first time, a military expert on both Russia and insurgency offers  the definitive guide on the violence in Southern Russia, explaining why  the Russian approach to counterterrorism is failing, why terrorist and  insurgent attacks in Russia have sharply increased over the past three  years, why civilians continue to disappear, why the situation will only  worsen as the 2014 Sochi Olympics approach -- and why there is no end in  sight to the morass.The  Insurgency in Chechnya and the North Caucasus: From Gazavat to Jihad is  a comprehensive and award-winning treatment of this 300 year-old  conflict. Thematically  organized, it cuts through the rhetoric to provide a contextual  framework with which readers can truly understand the "why" and "how" of  one of the world’s longest-running contemporary insurgencies, despite  Russia's best efforts to eradicate it.A fascinating case study of  a counterinsurgency campaign that is in direct contravention of US and  Western strategy, the book also examines the differences and linkages  between insurgency and terrorism; the origins of conflict in the North  Caucasus; and the influences of different strains of Islam, of al-Qaida,  and of the War on Terror. A critical examination of  never-before-revealed Russian counterinsurgency (COIN) campaigns  explains why those campaigns have consistently failed and why the region  has seen such an upswing in violence since the conflict was officially  declared "over" less than two years ago.The book's features  include: information drawn from the North Caucasus Incident Database  (NCID), compiling every violent incident in the region over a two-year  period; charts showing the complex strategies of the insurgency and the  Russian counterinsurgency campaigns; declassified intelligence reports;  as well as maps and a bibliography. Presented through the lens of  counterinsurgency theory, this incisive analysis explores the historic  roots of each issue, the key players, and the farthest-reaching effects.  It is the first doctrinal analysis (classified or unclassified)  produced on the conflict in over 10 years and is already being used as a  textbook at the Program on Terrorism and Security Studies at the  Marshall Center.

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