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... The Use of Air Power in Limited Wars: Interview with Professor Earl H. Tilford, Jr. ... you really believe the Army leadership that has created a COIN-centered force over the last decade can think past the horizon enough to ...

Journal Article - May 24 2011 - 5:45pm - 30 comments

... this as weakness or strength depending on what side of the coin you fall with respect to the amount of power our military holds. Either ... on the A thought on the iPhone/technology bit. Close air support pilots are significantly aided in their work and the speed with ...

Journal Article - Apr 5 2012 - 4:36am - 94 comments

... An Air Force officer tenders a letter of surrender. ... Army doing its job” taskings and the “Cult of COIN,” I’m not sure if I’m in the Army or in the Air Force. ...

Blog post - May 14 2012 - 4:55am - 41 comments - 0 attachments

... COIN Toss: The Cult of Counterinsurgency - Michael Crowley, The New ... been far more successful, yet even with half a million air/ground/sea combatants in Viet Nam losing nary a battle, we could not ... been far more successful, yet even with half a million air/ground/sea combatants in Viet Nam losing nary a battle, we could not ...

Blog post - Jan 4 2010 - 1:54pm - 89 comments - 0 attachments

... J-35 fighter. Now the Vegans can compete with the angry Air Force folks on this blog…the more the merrier. But what happens when ... I will finish with an even more contentious comment- COIN may be a "problem" that shape-shifts from mouse to cat to sperm whale in ...

Journal Article - Aug 7 2011 - 12:30pm - 83 comments

... behind disruptive innovation like Gen Petraeus' work, or COIN technologies like MRAPs, UAVs, and ubiquitous cameras. Mr. Gates' ... perform practical feats on land, at sea, in the air, and surely will do so in space, but never publish theories or concepts for ...

Journal Article - Apr 9 2012 - 5:00am - 61 comments

... Braden Civins Download the Full Article: FM 3-24 COIN Manual Critique The U.S. Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field ... truff of the U.S. Marine Corps, SOF, even the Navy and Air Force; but not the Army. I suspect the service-based concerns of the Army ...

Journal Article - May 5 2011 - 9:01pm - 73 comments

... Thinking Critically about COIN and Creatively about Strategy and War An Interview with Colonel ... Anonymous, I understand what you are saying. An Air Force guy once told me all we have is a beachhead in the middle of 1 ...

Journal Article - Dec 14 2010 - 8:37pm - 83 comments

... 2001 a few hundred Special Operations Force personnel and air power helped the Northern Alliance defeat the Taliban. The Taliban were a ... 7 Observations on Population-Centric COIN Show Author Info?:  ...

Journal Article - May 21 2012 - 5:48am - 29 comments

... How innovative and determined officers in 3rd Marine Air Wing used the iPad to improve close air support in Afghanistan. Editor's ... changes (Moving from massive pop-centric COIN to FID and One Tribe at a Time VSO effort). For the first point, ...

Blog post - May 15 2012 - 4:48am - 9 comments - 0 attachments