Small Wars Journal

US Army / Marine Corps COIN Center SITREPs

Tue, 01/20/2009 - 4:32pm
Here are the latest SITREPs from the US Army / Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Center

30 November 2008

Wanted to provide you some insights from trips to Afghanistan, Iraq, and the UK we have had in last month and to solicit your thoughts on a concept to form a "COIN CFE Triad" and potentially an "ABCA COIN Constellation" to harmonize efforts in a time of increasing demand, greater complexity, and diminishing resources. We see this as supportive of Secretary Gates' recent call to "institutionalize capabilities such as counterinsurgency" (a must read -- link here) and welcome your feedback:..

9 January 2009

Appreciate everyone's efforts this past year toward the continued enhancement of counterinsurgency capabilities in support of our troops. While there has been progress across many fronts, there is much yet to be done. The nation's ability to institutionalize its counterinsurgency, security force assistance, and stability operations competencies has been a hot topic of senior leadership this past month (see President's Dec 08 USMA speech and Secretary of Defense's Jan 09 article in Foreign Affairs). It is important to emphasize that these skills should not be in competition with, but inherent to, full-spectrum capabilities...

Good stuff check both SITREPs out.