Keeping Score Without the Body Count: Measuring Counterinsurgent Effectiveness According to Insurgent Tangible Resources

In 2001 and in 2003 the United States Army, along with coalition forces demonstrated their conventional superiority by routing the forces of the Taliban and the Iraqi Army. Since those conventional victories, determining success has not been so clear. How does a COIN commander know he is winning? US military doctrine addresses the need to construct measures of effectiveness, but does not offer any universal metrics applicable to COIN.To determine if there are any reasonable, universal metri...