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... A Counterinsurgency Primer - Max Boot, Wall Street Journal book review of ...

Blog post - Mar 16 2009 - 1:56am - 3 comments - 0 attachments

... itself.  This will put current content into a more appropriate context and nuance in general, and address the primary ... that the strategic ends of what I term 'second-party counterinsurgency' (ie, 'interventionist' COIN) are far closer (but not 100% ... It would be useful for COIN doctrine to have a primer on our own culture, including organisational culture. Aim for the ...

Blog post - May 7 2012 - 5:12pm - 43 comments - 0 attachments

... A primer to help move past COIN, CT, FID, SFA and start talking strategy to ... In the last decade, we jumped from pre-emptive war to counterinsurgency, and we are now moving to Foreign Internal Defense ...

Blog post - Dec 6 2011 - 10:05am - 68 comments - 0 attachments

... in advance -- and therefore deterring conflict -- or as a coupled component in the process of combat and post combat operations. It ... adversary, much less having problems adapting to the counterinsurgency, or "irregular" problems it faced starting in late 2003. ...

Journal Article - Dec 21 2009 - 11:43pm - 8 comments

... Wars Journal , also penned Strategic Communication: A Primer . The concept of Strategic Communication had, until late 2008, ... attention in the UK. However the production of the UK's counterinsurgency doctrine (still to be definitively named but catalogued as ...

Blog post - Sep 12 2009 - 11:22pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments

... A Combined Arms Response to Death of the Armor Corps by Major ... Death of the Armor Corps Since the emergence of Counterinsurgency (COIN) as a strategy in 2004, it has gained widespread ...

Journal Article - Jun 1 2010 - 5:36pm - 78 comments

... In response to a Daily Kos screed ... Unfortunately, no one seems to be calling our ... ... the folks at Blackfive respond with a lesson on counterinsurgency and MNF-I strategy. The Surge is not our ...

Blog post - Nov 5 2007 - 6:28pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments

... Alex Verschoor-Kirss provides an interesting look at a case of cultural insurgency: the Estonian Forest Brothers movement. ... guerrilla warfare must fail.” [1] The U.S. army counterinsurgency field manual is even more blunt, defining insurgency as ...

Journal Article - Feb 10 2012 - 2:31am - 6 comments

... parody the belief that the only useful tool in the box was a hammer, this is the kind of sentence you would write. Unfortunately, the ... he referred to what he was doing as population-centric counterinsurgency as described in FM 3-24. I explained that he may want to ...

Blog post - Dec 6 2011 - 8:07am - 48 comments - 0 attachments

... Building Security Forces and Ministerial Capacity: Iraq as a Primer by LTG James M. Dubik (U.S. Army, Ret.). Full report here . ... growth of the Iraq Security Forces as part of a broader counterinsurgency strategy to supplement the Surge of U.S. forces into the ...

Blog post - Sep 6 2009 - 9:37am - 0 comments - 0 attachments