New Ways of War? Insurgencies, ‘Small Wars’, and the Past and
Future of Conflict
1st-2nd June 2011
Clinton Institute for American Studies, University College Dublin
Funded by the Graduate School, College of Arts and Celtic Studies, UCD
PROGRAMME
Wednesday, 1st June
1030 Coffee/registration
1100-1110 – Opening Remarks: David Fitzgerald, UCD
1110-1300 – Panel 1
1300-1400 – Lunch
1400-1530 – Panels 2 & 3
1530-1600 – Break (tea and coffee)
1600 -1730 – Panels 4&5
1730-1800 – Break (tea and coffee)
1800-1930 – Plenary Address: Hew Strachan, Oxford University
1930- Wine Reception
Thursday, 2nd June
0930-1100 – Panels 6&7
1100-1130 – Break (tea and coffee)
1130-1300 – Panels 8&9
1300-1400 – Lunch
1400-1530 – Plenary Address: Professor Mark Grimsley, The Ohio State University
1530-1600 – Break (tea and coffee)
1600-1730 – Panels 10&11
1730-1830 – Closing roundtable
2000 – Conference Dinner
Panel One: Thinking about Small Wars
T. X. Hammes, National Defense University, ‘Why the U.S. counterinsurgency strategy isn’t and
its best practices aren’t’.
Frank Hoffman, United States Department of Defense, ‘Hybrid Threats in Context’.
Theo Farrell, Kings College London, ‘The War for Helmand: Britain’s Military Campaign,
2006-2010’
Panel Two: Advisors and Counterinsurgency: the Afghanistan Experience
Steve Grenier, United States Department of Defense, ‘A Critical Analysis of American Advisory
Efforts in Afghanistan, 2002-2009’.
William Rosenau, CNA Strategic Studies, ‘Cops and Counterinsurgency: Police Assistance,
State-Building, and the Lessons of Afghanistan’.
Madeleine Wells, George Washington University, ‘Foreign Military Assistance in an Age of
Counterinsurgency’.
Panel Three: Education and Small Wars
Mike Cosgrave, UCC, ‘Teaching 4GW’.
Conor Galvin, UCD, ‘New War/New Peace? Working towards a Comprehensive Approach in
Peace Support Preparation and Training at UNTSI’.
Catherine Baker, University of Southampton, ‘Politics, crisis and demand for language
knowledge in the British response to the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina’.
Panel Four: 18th Century Small Wars
Sylvie Kleinmann, UCD, ‘The first subversive war? Lessons on irregular and ideological warfare
from the French Revolution’.
James McIntyre, Moraine Valley Community College, ‘South Carolina 1780-81: A Bloody
Contest of Counterinsurgency and Insurgency’.
John W. Hall, University of Wisconsin at Madison, ‘Washington’s Irregulars: Petite Guerre in
the American Revolution’.
Panel Five: The IRA and the Irish War of Independence
Timothy B. Hoyt, ‘Defeat, Disarmament and Re-integration: The Irish Experience in the 20th
Century’.
John Borgonovo, UCC, ‘Insurgent Intelligence in Cork 1918-21’.
Jerome Devitt, Independent Scholar, ‘The IRA and the Western Way of War 1916-21’.
Panel Six: Clausewitz, Theorists and Counterinsurgency
Steve Torrente, Independent Scholar, ‘Evaluating Counterinsurgency as Political Theory’.
Bart Schuurman, Utrecht University/Leiden University, ‘Clausewitz and the ‘New Wars’
Scholars’.
Tony Corns, Independent Scholar, ‘Learning from Mars or from Minerva?: Clausewitz, Liddell
Hart, and the Two Western Ways of War’.
Panel Seven: 1917-23 as a Turning Point in the History of Small Wars
James Kitchen, UCD, ‘Fighting their own “Small War”: The Jewish Legion, 1917-1921’.
John Paul Newman, UCD, ‘Balkan Paramilitarism after the First World War: Origins and
Legacies’.
Julia Eichenberg, UCD, ‘Insurgents, Independence Fighters, Army Founders? Paramilitary
Formations in Poland, 1914-1921’.
Panel Eight: Lesson- Learning and Counterinsurgency
Andrew Mumford, University of Sheffield, ‘Puncturing the Counterinsurgency Myth: Britain and
Irregular Warfare in the Past, Present and Future’.
Weichong Ong, Nanyang Technological University, ‘The Twin Emergencies in Malaysia (19481989): Securing the Population and Making the State’.
David Fitzgerald, UCD, ‘Remembering Vietnam: The US Army’s Lessons of Vietnam and
Counterinsurgency Doctrine in the 1970s’.
Panel Nine: Forgotten Conflicts, New Approaches
Clionadh Raleigh, Trinity College Dublin, ‘The Growing Informality of Political Violence
within African Conflicts: An Investigation of Thugs, Militias and Violence Entrepreneurs’.
Robert McNamara, University of Ulster, ‘Muito Secreto: The Rise and Fall of Exercise
ALCORA’.
Nihat Ali Özcan, Economic Policy Research Foundation of Turkey, ‘The Changing Character of
the PKK-led Insurgency and Turkey’s Reformed COIN Campaign’.
Panel Ten: Civil Society and Small Wars
Dawn Walsh, DCU, ‘Small Wars – The British government and the IRA, policy adaptation or
policy learning?’
Stuart Maslen, Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law , ‘New Wars, New Laws?’.
Erik Claessen, Belgian Joint Staff, ‘Civil Society and Conflict Termination: A Historical
Perspective’.
Panel Eleven: Global Counter-Terrorism and Global Counterinsurgency
Guy Berry, United States Naval Academy, ‘Mosaic World: The Expanding Cyber Landscape and
Future War’.
Maria Ryan, University of Nottingham, ‘”War in Countries we are not at war with”: The
Pentagon’s New Counter-Terrorism doctrine’
Markus Kienscherf, Freie Universität Berlin, ‘A Programme of Biopolitical Imperialism: Global
Counterinsurgency and Human Security’.