Small Wars Journal

Beyond Counterinsurgency

Sun, 09/15/2013 - 6:50pm

Beyond Counterinsurgency by Isaiah Wilson III, The American Interest. (Excerpt provided at TAI, full article requires subscription)

…Through the writings of others, I supplied one of the first “official” accounts of the war’s progress, and possibly the first acknowledgement of the lack of a workable operational plan for winning the peace - what at the time was referred to as Phase-IV (stability and reconstruction) operations in Iraq…

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