{"id":757,"date":"2008-07-17T21:58:01","date_gmt":"2008-07-17T18:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=757"},"modified":"2023-04-02T12:50:43","modified_gmt":"2023-04-02T09:50:43","slug":"key-strategic-issues-list-for-us-army-on-pkk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2008\/07\/17\/key-strategic-issues-list-for-us-army-on-pkk\/","title":{"rendered":"Key Strategic Issues List for US Army on PKK"},"content":{"rendered":"

Key Strategic Issues List, July 2008<\/strong><\/p>\n

Edited by Dr. Antulio J. Echevarria, II.<\/p>\n

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The Key Strategic Issues List (KSIL) offers military and civilian researchers a ready reference of topics that are of particular interest to the Department of the Army and the Department of Defense. The KSIL performs a valuable service by linking the research community with major defense organizations which, in turn, seek to benefit from focused research. It thus forms a critical link in an ongoing research cycle. With the publication of the AY 2008-09 KSIL, the Strategic Studies Institute and the U.S. Army War College invite the research community to address any of the many strategic challenges identified herein. Further information regarding specific topics can be obtained by contacting SSI faculty or relevant KSIL sponsors.<\/p>\n

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IV. Kurds (Kongra Gel\/PKK):<\/p>\n

1. Case study of the potential impact and implications, both to Turkey<\/p>\n

and to the Kongra Gel\/PKK, of the transition of the Kongra Gel from<\/p>\n

an insurgency to a political movement supporting the Kurdish cause<\/p>\n

2. Case study of factors enabling the Kongra Gel, as a Marxist insurgency<\/p>\n

made up of primarily of Muslims, to mitigate pressures to adopt more<\/p>\n

of a radical Islamic agenda and maintain its focus on the basic Marxist<\/p>\n

(secular) tenets of the organization<\/p>\n

3. Case study of Kongra Gel\/PKK insurgency from the basis of its ability<\/p>\n

to avoid\/prevent serious schisms or splintering, even after its leader\u2019s<\/p>\n

imprisonment, at least up to the current potential split. What are the<\/p>\n

potential implications of the apparent division of the Kongra Gel into<\/p>\n

\u201creformist\u201d and \u201chardline\u201d camps?<\/p>\n

4. Case study of the effectiveness of Turkish Jandarma paramilitary<\/p>\n

police forces in combating the Kongra Gel\/PKK<\/p>\n

5. Case study of the effectiveness of Turkish military operations against<\/p>\n

the Kongra Gel\/PKK inside northern Iraq from the 1990s to present.<\/p>\n

Were these operations successful in disrupting the KGK\/PKK, for<\/p>\n

the long term, short term, or has there been little actual disruption to<\/p>\n

Kongra Gel operations?<\/p>\n

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Key Strategic Issues List, July 2008 Edited by Dr. Antulio J. Echevarria, II. Added July 16, 2008 Type: Book 170 Pages File Size: 511KB Download Time: 3 Minute(s) on dial-up Cost: Free Read Now Or save it directly on your computer Send this page to a colleague. Alert me when similar studies are published The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":782328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1280,128],"class_list":["post-757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-usa","tag-pkk","tag-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/782328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}