%0 Journal Article
%T Murder on Maneuver: Exploring Green
%A Casey Hilland
%A Elias Nader
%A Huseyin Sari
%A Marek Palasinski
%A Neil Shortland
%J Armed Forces & Society
%@ 1556-0848
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/0095327X17752425
%X Green-on-blue attacks have a devastating psychological, tactical, and operational effect on military operations in Afghanistan. In spite of this, no empirical research has offered a data-driven examination of these attacks, leaving a gap that this article aims to address. By analyzing a large (yet inevitability incomplete) open-source database developed on these attacks, we present data on the perpetrators and victims of these attacks. We also investigate whether green-on-blue attacks are related to the number of civilian casualties in that area; finding that (unlike wider insurgent violence) they are not. Instead, we find that it is the number of troops present within a Regional Command that is positively correlated with the likelihood that a green-on-blue attack will occur. We discuss the implications of these findings with reference to future issues of force protection
%K green-on-blue
%K insider attack
%K fratricide
%K counter insurgency
%K social categorization theory
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0095327X17752425