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    Importance of population support in counterinsurgency : a case of the Taiping rebellion by Ha, Yu Xin

    Published 2017
    “…While many classical COIN theorists believe that population support is important for domestic COIN victory in that the population-centric approach appeared more effective than the enemy-centric approach, recent research providing empirical evidence for the enemy-centric approach's effectiveness in successful COIN and the possibility of combining approaches prompted this dissertation to view the importance of population support from a different perspective. This dissertation asserts that population support is important in two aspects: 1) in providing strategic and tactical advantages (e.g. manpower and material support) to the counterinsurgents; and 2) in assisting the counterinsurgents to decide the most appropriate approach to use in COIN, whether enemy-centric, population-centric or a combination of both, depending on whether the nature of population support would allow active population support to be gained for the counterinsurgents and lost for the insurgents so as to enjoy the advantages in 1). …”
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