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Spanish Cultural Club, Carolina Barraza, Katya Reason
Spanish Cultural Club, Carolina Barraza, Katya Reason
Honors Expanded Learning Clubs
The goal is for students to learn essential Spanish words and phrases and learn more about the culture of Latin America.
Spanish Culture Club, Emily Taylor
Spanish Culture Club, Emily Taylor
Honors Expanded Learning Clubs
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The Importance Of Cultural Knowledge In Counterinsurgency, Allee Norvell
The Importance Of Cultural Knowledge In Counterinsurgency, Allee Norvell
Honors Theses
This thesis discusses the importance and usefulness of cultural knowledge in counterinsurgency. When combatting insurgent groups, it can be difficult to identify insurgents and utilize conventional warfare. Insurgents use various tactics and strategies to promote their goals while living among the local population. These aspects require intervening countries and counterinsurgency to take the varying strategies into consideration when making their military decisions. The most important aspect needed for these counterinsurgency operations is cultural knowledge. Having an understanding of the intervening population and its dynamics with the insurgent group can be proven to be very beneficial. Specifically, in the cases of …