Second Step: Deployment of the Static Unit.
Third Step: Contact with and Control of the population.
Fourth Step: Destruction of the insurgent political organization.
Fifth Step: Local Elections.
Sixth Step: Testing local leaders.
Seventh Step: Organizing a Party.
Eighth Step: Winning over or suppressing the last guerrillas.
So much for Center research. The argument then in a capsule from another Center publication. Morton Halperin's Contemporary Military Strategy, 1967.
"We seek, then, to develop an effective strategy for what is known as counter-insurgency in dealing with what the Soviet Union and China call wars of national liberation." (p. 136)
Those of us who support wars of national liberation must oppose the Center for International Affairs.