MWI – “WHERE ARE THE WOMEN? THE UNFORTUNATE OMISSION IN THE ARMY’S COIN DOCTRINE” – 7 March 2017

http://www.mwi.usma.edu/women-unfortunate-omission-armys-coin-doctrine/

Where Are the Women? The Unfortunate Omission in the Army’s COIN Doctrine. “Megan Anderson provides a thought provoking analysis of the Army’s counterinsurgency doctrine.”

And see:

FM 3-24 Counterinsurgency

http://usacac.army.mil/cac2/Repository/Materials/COIN-FM3-24.pdf

See also earlier examinations from other authors:

https://muse.jhu.edu/article/477665/pdf

Counterinsurgency and Gender: The Case of the Female Engagement Teams

http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/11096/1/Khalili_-_Gendered_Practcies_of_Counterinsurgency.pdf

https://www.google.com/amp/foreignpolicy.com/2009/10/09/women-in-coin-ii-how-to-do-it-right/amp/

http://www.dtic.mil/get-tr-doc/pdf?AD=ADA604399

In addition to the cited David Galula (author of Counterinsurgency Warfare)(http://louisville.edu/armyrotc/files/Galula%20David%20-%20Counterinsurgency%20Warfare.pdf), see also Roger Trinquier’s Modern Warfare (http://usacac.army.mil/cac2/cgsc/carl/download/csipubs/ModernWarfare.pdf).

Also, in a complete historical analysis of French efforts in Algeria and contemporary US Female Engagement Teams (FET), the Center for Army Lessons Learned (CALL) cited the French Algeria Equipes Médico-Sociales Itinérantes (EMSI) (Mobile Sociology-Medical Teams), consisting of one doctor and three female social workers (one French and two Algerian).

See http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/report/call/call_11-38_v3.pdf