CCO Case Studies Series

The Center for Complex Operations Case Studies Series provides classroom teaching case studies that focus on complex operations -- stability, security, transition and reconstruction, counterinsurgency and irregular warfare. These teaching cases are provided with instructor guides and are relevant to the many disciplines needed to achieve stability goals -- establishment of safe and secure environments, the rule of law, social well-being, good governance, and sustainable economic growth.The protagonists in the case studies include the many actors involved in a comprehensive approach to complex operations-- governmental, nongovernmental, public and private, domestic and international.

Case Study No. 1: Security by Contractor: Outsourcing in Peace and Stability Operations by Volker Franke
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Case Study No. 2: Dynamic Tension: Security, Stability and the Opium Trade by Peter Curry
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Case Study No. 3: Right and Wrong, Balanced on the Edge of a Spear: U.S. Forces at a Mosque in Baghdad by Joshua Potter
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Case Study No. 4: The Kuwait Task Force: Postconflict Planning and Interagency Coordination by Dennis Barlow
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Case Study No. 5: Military Provision of Humanitarian and Civic Assistance: A Day in the Life of a Civil Affairs Team in the Horn of Africa by Jessica Piombo
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Case Study No. 6: A Penny for Your Thoughts, a Nickel for Your Heart: Buying Popular Support for Counterinsurgency by Justin Gorkowski

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Case Study No. 7: Disarmament in South Sudan by Cecily Brewer

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