Fiscal Year	2010
Division	Graduate School of Operational & Information Sciences
Department	Operations Research
Investigator(s)	Szechtman, Roberto
Sponsor	Army Center for Analysis (Army)
Summary	The goal is to portray the long-term effect of interactions among different groups of people in intra-and inter-social networks, taking into account each group's idiosyncratic attitude towards the insurgents and the government, and their manifested behavior. The terms attitude and behavior used here are related, respectively, to the terms private preference and public preference used in Kuran (1989). While it may be hard to shape the attitude of people-their fundamental beliefs and values that have been shaped over centuries of cultural evolution-it may be possible to affect their manifested behavior. The objective of the regime is to influence the behavior of the population and gain its support for eliminating the insurgency. Ultimately, with a better understanding of social influences and their possible consequences, it will be possible for the regime to make better allocations of counterinsurgency resources for attaining its objective.
Keywords	Irregular Warfare
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