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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 - 4:45pm - 30 comments

... 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 - 11:30am - 79 comments

... 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 entry - Jan 4 2010 - 12:54pm - 89 comments - 0 attachments

... 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 - 7:37pm - 83 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 - 8:01pm - 73 comments

... policies are nearly impossible to apply, particularly in COIN environments that lack a well-defined forward area, such as Afghanistan. ... forces to support their battle space owners’ COIN objectives by conducting key female engagements with the local population ... is service specific. I can think of nothing in the Air Force that a woman can't do, as those deployments and operating ...

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

... element that just needs to "get over it" and support our COIN/CT agenda. We risk triggering a nuclear war with our meddling, and need ... ground to kill him, a man on the ground, not a Pred in the air. That man can be our man, an ally or a neutral actually enforcing their ...

Journal Article - Dec 2 2010 - 10:22pm - 120 comments

... an acid test for the doctrine of counterinsurgency, or "COIN," a carefully designed strategy to wrest a strategic area from insurgent ... (rules of engagement) that all but eliminate the use of Air Support and Field Artillery Support for US and NATO forces except in the ...

Blog entry - Jul 25 2010 - 3:27am - 47 comments - 0 attachments

... Policy : Topics include: 1) By tossing the COIN to Afghanistan, Obama can now aim at Pakistan 2) Are the Pentagon's ... By contrast, U.S. forces should be able to overcome enemy air and missile defenses. The United States should have long-range aircraft ...

Blog entry - Jun 23 2011 - 12:30pm - 64 comments - 0 attachments

... that in mind, recent articles contradicting Pop-Centric COIN would indicate that AtN is perhaps the best course of action to take. ... and force the targeting working group to live with air targets planned 24, 48, and 72 hours out. Great effort Chief and I ...

Journal Article - Jul 16 2011 - 7:50am - 57 comments