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... a pretty good resource for students and practitioners of COIN -- The Counterinsurgency Library . The site is pretty well organized and contains a lot of historical ...

Blog entry - Jun 7 2008 - 9:49am - 0 comments - 0 attachments

... books and articles I am interested in checking out at the library. Nice work. HB I second HB's vote to I second HB's ... 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

... on the formation of the new U.S. Army Counterinsurgency (COIN) Academy in Afghanistan. We were particularly interested in the Academy's pursuit of building a first-class COIN library. So... SWJ and AM have decided to aid in building the library with ...

Blog entry - Dec 26 2007 - 8:44am - 7 comments - 0 attachments

... 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 ... involving MO and the cloak, since I can't get to the library because my car is in the shop, and I'm probably wrong anyway. But I ...

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

... The claims about COIN were obviously false when made, disproved by both history and logic. ... military types. They also can have the school library purchase it whereas most military folks buy their own books. Consider ...

Blog entry - Dec 6 2011 - 7:07am - 48 comments - 0 attachments

... An Evening of Counterinsurgency at the Pritzker Military Library Hearts and minds? Overrated. If you want to run a successful ... 3rd, Mark Moyar will appear at the Pritzker Military Library to discuss his new book, A Question of Command: Counterinsurgency ...

Blog entry - Dec 1 2009 - 12:00pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments

... he enunciated a more nuanced understanding of the war and COIN than they found politically tolerable. Most readers in this corner of the ... Sun Tzu didn't need to borrow heavily from the French COIN library to discuss a war across a social "ethnography." If he renames the ...

Blog entry - May 7 2010 - 10:51am - 49 comments - 0 attachments

... or other writings change anyone's attitude toward COIN which is a very questionable academic theory proven not to work for a ... them out to matter. I mean it is not like one of these Coin generals turns his army right or left, and if it is the wrong direction, ... published by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress: All Chinese males from ages eighteen to fifty were ...

Blog entry - Jul 1 2011 - 5:06pm - 59 comments - 0 attachments

... it isn't so! This has terrible consequences for the entire COIN strategy since these books are the basis for how to be an advisor, build ... actually did--yet his book has come to be embraced by the coin community--and American counterinsurgency itself is one big myth. The ... Prine writes: Given that rich library printed on these issues and our own bloody slogs through Iraq and ...

Blog entry - Apr 18 2011 - 7:06pm - 59 comments - 0 attachments

... examples (many more can be found in the SWJ Reference Library ) recently received by the SWJ to include papers written by students ... experimentation, and training on the execution of COIN operations... Reexamining the Operational Relevance of Chapter IV ...

Blog entry - May 4 2007 - 3:58am - 0 comments - 0 attachments