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... on socio-cultural structural relationships and dynamics of the local population, providing insights into how to target interactions ... a description of our formulation for a counterinsurgency (COIN) model.  We will first introduce briefly the concepts we feel are ...

Journal Article - Feb 28 2012 - 5:41am - 13 comments

... Security , writes in the November / December issue of Foreign Affairs on while Counterinsurgency -- US Army Field Manual ... attempting to tip the scales one way or the other). The COIN FM is not an academic document, but it is deeply informed by classical ...

Blog post - Oct 20 2007 - 7:57pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments

... unorthodox thinking, I offer an intellectual olive branch of sorts. There is a reason hardly any of these Design concepts will ever enter ... 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

... comments struck exposed flesh.  While an ardent fan of Kohlmann’s essay, I have to agree that his argument was more akin to ... behind disruptive innovation like Gen Petraeus' work, or COIN technologies like MRAPs, UAVs, and ubiquitous cameras. Mr. Gates' ...

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

... Ahead of the COIN conference at Ft. Leavenworth, Robert C. Jones offers ten points for ...

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

... Cordesman’s “ Afghanistan: The Death of a Strategy ” provides a realistic analysis of the US problem in ... the COG trap to some degree, and indirectly promoting the COIN theory that the people are always the COG, which like any other proposed ...

Journal Article - Mar 3 2012 - 11:26am - 45 comments

... A primer to help move past COIN, CT, FID, SFA and start talking strategy to confront today's problems ... “it is a method rather than a doctrine, an apparatus of the mind, a technique for thinking, which helps the possessor to draw ...

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

... the truth is that poor personnel management and the burden of one-size-fits-all training preclude many servicemembers from attaining true ... Introduction A decade of Counterinsurgency (COIN) and Counter-Terrorism (CT) operations have highlighted our ...

Journal Article - Mar 20 2012 - 5:26am - 30 comments

... In " COIN of the Realm " ( Foreign Affairs - November/December 2007), Colin Kahl ...

Blog post - Dec 26 2007 - 2:02am - 5 comments - 0 attachments

... COIN Toss: The Cult of Counterinsurgency - Michael Crowley, The New Republic . On the ...

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