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Murder on Maneuver: Exploring Green-on-Blue Attacks in Afghanistan.

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Title: Murder on Maneuver: Exploring Green-on-Blue Attacks in Afghanistan.
Authors: Shortland, Neil, Nader, Elias, Sari, Huseyin, Palasinski, Marek, Hilland, Casey
Source: Armed Forces & Society (Sage Publications Inc.). Apr2019, Vol. 45 Issue 2, p368-388. 21p.
Subjects: Military offensives, Afghan War, 2001-2021, Military tactics, Casualties in the Afghan War, 2001-2021, Military personnel
Abstract: Green-on-blue attacks have a devastating psychological, tactical, and operational effect on military operations in Afghanistan. In spite of this, no empirical research has offered a data-driven examination of these attacks, leaving a gap that this article aims to address. By analyzing a large (yet inevitability incomplete) open-source database developed on these attacks, we present data on the perpetrators and victims of these attacks. We also investigate whether green-on-blue attacks are related to the number of civilian casualties in that area; finding that (unlike wider insurgent violence) they are not. Instead, we find that it is the number of troops present within a Regional Command that is positively correlated with the likelihood that a green-on-blue attack will occur. We discuss the implications of these findings with reference to future issues of force protection. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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