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... or even a BS/BA actually teaches one useful skills outside reading/writing/arithmetic is wrong to the nth degree" requires no further ... 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 ...

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

... on the formation of the new U.S. Army Counterinsurgency (COIN) Academy in Afghanistan. We were particularly interested in the Academy's ... friends. We e-mailed the COIN Academy requesting their reading list. They responded with titles of books and movies that once in hand ...

Blog post - Dec 26 2007 - 9:44am - 7 comments - 0 attachments

... 2009 COL Gregory Wilson, Anatomy of a Successful COIN Operation: OEF-Philippines, and The Indirect Approach , Military Review, ... those are just my thougths on it. Thank you for the reading. Thank you for the reading. When I have time to sitdown and start ...

Journal Article - May 14 2012 - 4:42am - 62 comments

... security...), the 5x W's, BOLO reports, jackpots...the list is infinite and growing. We are masters of description; we could literally ... 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 ... interpretation in the USA (a long article but really worth reading): ...

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

... his business book Good Strategy/Bad Strategy , must reading for anyone interested in charting a path for organizational ... 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 ... appetite...), the guys and girls who should have been reading it in '07 and '08 were not. I would conduct a poll of every BCT that ...

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

... 7 Observations on Population-Centric COIN Show Author Info?:  ... you've not been to Afghanistan, but what have you been reading to think what I'm suggesting is anything like current US policy? It ...

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

... comment by Sorely(decades ago) that Westmoreland was a COIN master? Because he doesn't agree with you Gian, Sorley is not permitted ... styles between Westmoreland and Abrams. From my reading of the documents (Westmoreland's papers at CMH) he tended to be a cold ...

Blog post - May 22 2012 - 7:29am - 22 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 ... daily mail or moin ansari and spend a jolly afternoon reading all about it). Afghan taliban may have simpler ambitions, but they ...

Journal Article - Dec 2 2010 - 11:22pm - 120 comments

... COIN Toss: The Cult of Counterinsurgency - Michael Crowley, The New ... Force Assistance brigade. I'm still not sure, after reading some of it.;) Still believe the heavy BCT needs a less threatening and ... including Russia, China, India, etc., -- and a growing list of others -- as nations, great powers and peoples who are dependent on ...

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