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

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

... Peter- I want to stress that I do not think we should toss Clausewitzian (or Jominian, or Mahanian) theories out the window; they ... 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

... A primer to help move past COIN, CT, FID, SFA and start talking strategy to confront today's problems ... and isn’t meant to be anything more than a sketch to toss into the mix. I still like it better as a base than the Jones model, ...

Blog entry - Dec 6 2011 - 9:05am - 68 comments - 0 attachments

... is not to be confused with the tactical approach to COIN being practiced in Afghanistan, but rather is a shifting of priority ... and certainly did not lead to the grassroots uprising to toss them out... Ultimately, it all still comes down to engaging the three ...

Blog entry - Feb 4 2011 - 4:19pm - 90 comments - 0 attachments

... year war that never did have any focus or manpower. 4. COIN in Afghanistan is not COIN in Iraq. It is over. Re: General ... on the local level....so i hope our leaders decide toss this coin strategy asap and try something else for the short time we have ...

Blog entry - Jun 23 2010 - 5:04am - 89 comments - 0 attachments

... It may be time to try a new approach. The key to COIN is not to simply grant the desires of every opposition group that comes ... thread that still has Chuck Norris quaking...) I only toss this stuff out because we need a national debate, and I fear there are ...

Blog entry - Jun 13 2010 - 7:00am - 69 comments - 0 attachments

... of law, governance, and other things seen as the goal of COIN are products of control, which requires destroying, deterring, and ... by naysayers, "This isn't theory, this is practice." So I toss this back to you. What you and WILF propose is equally theory, as it is ...

Blog entry - Dec 22 2011 - 5:36am - 23 comments - 0 attachments

... us where we are in either Iraq or Afghanistan (was it our COIN efforts, was it enemy mistakes, what combination of both, etc.?). We need ... coming out of the Pentagon lately, so I thought I'd toss that on the table to get conversation started... Re: Irregular Warfare ...

Journal Article - Nov 30 2010 - 7:17pm - 54 comments

... Obama's COIN Toss - Eliot A. Cohen, Washington Post opinion. It is impolite, ...

Blog entry - Dec 6 2009 - 6:42am - 5 comments - 0 attachments

... Strategy Dr Metz speaks truth to the power of the Coin Tactical Matrix; hopefully strategists and not Coin tacticians are ... It's not a force thing; it's an approach. Right now we toss the equivalent of 2LT's all over the world to do feel-good projects and ...

Blog entry - Aug 11 2010 - 3:47pm - 48 comments - 0 attachments