2011-04 "Domestic Insights: Gangs and Guerrillas: Ideas from Counterinsurgency and Counterterrorism" edited by Michael Freeman and Hy Rothstein
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 Can counter insurgency strategies be used to fight urban gangs? This question was discussed
 in a conversation between the Mayor of Salinas, the Provost of the Naval Postgraduate
 School and Representative Sam Farr. It became apparent during that discussion that there
 were many similarities between insurgent behavior and gang behavior—similarities that
 would make a more rigorous analysis worthwhile.
 These similarities are readily apparent when reading General Petraeus’s counterinsurgency
 guidance for U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan (see Appendix I). In his list of twentyfour
 “rules,” many of them resonate, but especially the following: secure and serve the
 population; live among the people; help confront the culture of impunity; hold what we
 secure; foster lasting solutions; consult and build relationships, but not just with those who
 seek us out; walk; act as one team; be first with the truth; fight the information war aggressively;
 manage expectations; and live our values. Ultimately, these guidelines intend to reach
 the same end state as urban policing does: a safe and secure population.
 With this theme in mind, the faculty of the Defense Analysis Department at the Naval
 Postgraduate School, experts in counterinsurgency operations, were enlisted to address
 these similarities and to share their theories, models, and ideas from their own disciplines of
 political science, sociology, anthropology, international relations, and more. This collection
 of short papers is the result.
 The goal of this project is to share the ideas developed to fight insurgents and terrorists and
 see if they can be adapted or modified to help the people of Salinas think about their city’s
 problem with gangs in an innovative way. Consequently, each chapter is intentionally left
 short, as they are intended to stimulate thought more than fully explain any one model or
 theory. The direct application of each chapter’s concept is left to the reader.
 While this project was put together for Salinas’s use, the ideas developed in these short
 papers will be useful not only for the city of Salinas but also for other cities combating gang
 violence.

Contributors
 John Arquilla, Professor, Defense Analysis Department, Naval Postgraduate School
 Leo Blanken, Assistant Professor, Defense Analysis Department, Naval Postgraduate School
 Doug Borer, Associate Professor, Defense Analysis Department, Naval Postgraduate School
 Dorothy Denning, Professor, Defense Analysis Department, Naval Postgraduate School
 Sean Everton, Assistant Professor, Defense Analysis Department, Naval Postgraduate School
 Michael Freeman, Assistant Professor, Defense Analysis Department, Naval Postgraduate School
 Brian Greenshields, Senior Lecturer, Defense Analysis Department, Naval Postgraduate School
 Heather Gregg, Assistant Professor, Defense Analysis Department, Naval Postgraduate School
 Rebecca Lorentz, Research Associate, Defense Analysis Department, Naval Postgraduate School
 Gordon McCormick, Professor, Defense Analysis Department, Naval Postgraduate School
 Matthew Peterson, Lieutenant Commander, US Navy, Masters Student in the Defense Analysis Department, Naval Postgraduate School
 Hy Rothstein, Senior Lecturer, Defense Analysis Department, Naval Postgraduate School
 Kalev Sepp, Senior Lecturer, Defense Analysis Department, Naval Postgraduate School
 Anna Simons, Professor, Defense Analysis Department, Naval Postgraduate School
 David Tucker, Associate Professor, Defense Analysis Department, Naval Postgraduate School
 Steve Twing, Professor, Department of Political Science, Frostburg State University
 Greg Wilson, Colonel, US Army, Special Operations Forces Chair, Defense Analysis Department, Naval Postgraduate School