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... FM 3-0 ( Operations ), FM 3-4 ( Counterinsurgency ) and Council member LTC Gian Gentile's view on both - Standing Athwart ... Gentile, though, FM 3-0 doesn't really matter, because for all intensive purposes, FM 3-24: Counterinsurgency has become the operations ...

Blog entry - Feb 28 2008 - 6:00am - 4 comments - 0 attachments

... critics acknowledge that it is regarded as "transcendent" and has "become the defining characteristic of the...new way of war." This ... Critique Except that the case evidence over the last 30 years supports 3-24 pretty strongly, and takes most of the wind of out ...

Journal Article - May 5 2011 - 8:01pm - 73 comments

... A primer to help move past COIN, CT, FID, SFA and start talking strategy to confront today's problems ... and this technology-led Global Revolution will take only 30-odd years. No single generation has witnessed so much change in a single ...

Blog entry - Dec 6 2011 - 9:05am - 68 comments - 0 attachments

... Have FST and CSTs teams pushed the limits of the female exclusion in combat ... she was in a time warp. She thought she had dropped back 30 years in time to when this debate raged in Norway. It is a mote point today. ...

Journal Article - Nov 20 2011 - 7:34am - 46 comments

... says it all when it comes to the nature of the publication and I quote... "The FM is designed to fill a doctrinal gap" and "that every ... ~a half day for ~few hundred, broken into groups of ~30) to discuss their perspective in some detail, then that would be something ...

Blog entry - Dec 2 2010 - 3:07pm - 34 comments - 0 attachments

... 13, courtesy of WPR.  Thanks to Judah, Hampton, and all.  And thanks, Bob. Guest post by Robert C. Jones: ... comment... Where the hell have I been for the last 30 years? I actually thought that every President and Secretary of State since ...

Blog entry - Feb 4 2011 - 4:19pm - 90 comments - 0 attachments

... there are unmistakable signs of progress in Afghanistan, and Gen. David Petraeus is about to make a very important recommendation." ... in public forum, because it doesn't nest well with a 30 sec sound byte, but the complexity is recognized, which is why there is so ...

Blog entry - Jun 20 2011 - 7:46am - 61 comments - 0 attachments

... at discussing how to wage a counterinsurgency campaign. And I think the Australian infantry officer turned political ... in Iran, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, etc. I'm amazed that with our global intel network and knowledge.. we can't identify and attack ... Though I suggest that the proposed 'metrics' are not at all "hillbilly" (and I are one...). No self respecting hillbilly would waste ...

Blog entry - Feb 8 2010 - 1:36pm - 79 comments - 0 attachments

... would not. This legislation provided unity of command and control for Special Operations Forces and elevated Special Operations to a ... Maritime (Piracy), piracy could be defeated in less than 30 days, the problem is not the execution of the mission but where those ECs ...

Journal Article - Dec 13 2009 - 10:25am - 77 comments

... A Tale of Two Design Efforts (and why they both failed in Afghanistan) by Grant Martin ... recognizes that telling a military leader that the past 30 years of their experience is not going to help (and will actually hurt) them ...

Journal Article - Jul 7 2011 - 3:24pm - 75 comments