Paper - "How Do Insurgencies End?"

The Small Wars Journal  has posted (October 10, 2014) a journal article entitled "How Do Insurgencies End?" by Russell Croy. The author recently graduated with a M.A. in Political Science from Colorado State University and served in the Marines in the Al Anbar region of Iraq in early 2008. Croy explores the issue of why some insurgencies end quickly and others go on for decades. He notes that many scholars have provided papers on how to understand insurgencies they don't provide much info on how these insurgencies end. He then compares two insurgencies to illustrate his argument - that of Chechnya and in West Java. He draws a distinction in defeating an insurgency and ending an insurgency; and concludes that the ending of an insurgency should start not also from a position of military action but from the end goal of achieving a desirable and peaceful outcome.