Download or read book Victory Has a Thousand Fathers written by Christopher Paul and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 2010 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of approaches to counterinsurgency from 30 recent resolved campaigns reveals that good COIN practices tend to "run in packs" and that the balance of selected good and bad practices perfectly predicts the outcome of a conflict.