In this open-access article with @PolViolence in Journal of Strategic Studies, we theorise how specific elements of knowledge - in this case knowledge of insurgencies - are integrated, negotiated and codified into doctrine https://t.co/qVf45L1V07

My India Review article with Ben Holt analysing variation in the character of state-rebel conflict across Northeast India's "Highland," "Heartland" and "Hinterland" conflicts is the journal’s 3rd most-read article in the last year! Read it OA here: https://t.co/nfgrolQq92

Reports of large-scale drone strikes against northeast Indian insurgent camps in Myanmar. As with most other conflict zones, the Northeast/Sagaing border area has gradually seen the arrival of drone warfare over the last couple of years

So excited to incorporate AI into the classroom and liberate my students from boring tasks like reading and thinking

Believe and walk the journey of decolonisation, repatriation, and healing. Naga delegation begins historic repatriation of ancestral remains from Oxford’s Pitt Rivers Museum

Pleased to see the second article from our @HenkelStiftung funded research project on counterinsurgency doctrine published online, plenty more to come. I’ll let @_AlexWaterman explain this one in his detailed thread!

Looks like a belter - and it’s open access!

May be of interest @WarInstitute, @IrregWarfare, @TraversMcLeod, @DrJohnNagl, @OfficialCLAWSIN @DefenceResNet

Many thanks to @HenkelStiftung for supporting this project + to our interlocutors and participants who were so generous in their time. Thanks also to members of the @DefenceResNet COIN Forum + editors @jmaiolo + team and reviewers for such a constructive and supportive process!

This picture of compromise and negotiation reflected the epistemic influences, positionality, and power brought to the table by various authors and stakeholders, shaped by path dependencies brought about by deadlines and critical negotiations to break deadlocks

We show a picture of epistemic negotiation and complexity often overlooked in critiques of the manual's 'classical' representation of insurgencies. FM 3-24 blended neoclassical approaches, attempts to widen typologies, 'mosaic' and GWOT(Iraq)-specific models of insurgency

We illustrate the fluid, negotiated nature of these knowledge processes through analysis of documentary and interview evidence of the drafting process of FM 3-24

We theorise 4 steps through which knowledge is integrated into doctrine: Knowledge Generation, In-Team Knowledge Negotiation, Org. Knowledge Negotiation and Critical Stakeholder Knowledge Negotiation. These processes are not linear, nor do they occur only once during drafting

Interested in joining us for a discussion? DM us or contact @_AlexWaterman. We're particularly keen to pull in a broad church of civil wars scholars reflecting the field's methodological diversity, so please do circulate widely!

India and Pakistan have agreed a precarious peace – but will it last? My short piece with @SudhirSelvaraj https://t.co/Gz11aXPgrj via @ConversationUK

🎶 Champions again, Ole, Ole… 🎶 #LUFC

***New Open Access Publication!*** In this India Review article co-authored with @BHoltLds, we develop a new typology capturing variation in state-rebel conflict across Northeast India

We conclude by reflecting on the typology's implications for comparative approaches to studying and shaping peacebuilding in Northeast India, as well as violence in Manipur since 2023, which continues to rage well into President's Rule:

The article is about showing when, where + how the Indian state, through its responses to rebellion, draws “red lines” on acceptable and unacceptable forms of armed mobilisation within the region, + when and where bargaining or the use of force has been possible or undesirable.

These clusters of state-rebel conflict are shaped by historical state-society relations, rebel group ideological compatibility and political and strategic interests to produce distinct spatial and temporal patterns in state-rebel conflict across the region