Acknowledgements

Fieldwork for this article was made possible through Faculty Development Funds from the College of International Security Affairs of the NDU in Washington, DC. It builds upon research conducted for a RAND Corporation project (see Rabasa et al. Rabasa, Angel, JohnGordonIV, PeterChalk, Audra K.Grant, K.Scott McMahon, StephaniePezard, CarolineReilly, DavidUcko, and S.Rebecca Zimmerman. From Insurgency to Stability, Volume II: Insights from Selected Case Studies. Santa Monica, CA: RAND, 2011. [Google Scholar], From Insurgency to Stability, Vol. II). Opinions expressed herein are those of the author alone and do not represent the views of the US government. The author would like to thank Michelle Parker, Ryan Evans, and Thomas A. Marks for their comments on previous drafts of this article. He would also like to thank Katelyn Guy, Ricardo Gomez Hecht, Bill Rosenau, Herard Von Santos, and David Spencer for their roles in making this article possible. Special thanks go out also to those who accepted to be interviewed for this study.