The Colombian Awakening - President Alvaro Uribe's Integrated Action Approach to Counterinsurgency (Paperback)

This study evaluates the effectiveness of Colombia's Integrated Action approach to counterinsurgency against the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia Ejericito del Pueblo (FARC-EP), primarily from the Colombian perspective. It specifically seeks to answer the following question: How effectively did the government of Colombia integrate the various elements of national power --diplomatic, informational, military, and economic-- to attain its political objectives of establishing a stable government that provided both internal and external security? The American-supported initiative known as Plan Colombia was conceived in 1998-1999 to stabilize Colombias internal and external security situations with a combined anti-drug and counterinsurgency strategy.