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

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

... 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 ... business logic to the military, why would we want to toss out 80,000 Soldiers, mostly lower-paid enlisted, who live in the South ...

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

... Army doing its job” taskings and the “Cult of COIN,” I’m not sure if I’m in the Army or in the Air Force. ... and low scores (or the polar opinions) are compromised and toss them out of the mix. Even with what's left, I haven't the expertise to ...

Blog post - May 14 2012 - 4:55am - 41 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 - 12:30pm - 83 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 post - Dec 6 2011 - 10:05am - 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 post - Feb 4 2011 - 5:19pm - 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 post - Jun 23 2010 - 6:04am - 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 post - Jun 13 2010 - 8:00am - 69 comments - 0 attachments

... at work here rather than a warrior. In my review of COIN FM I criticized it as not being written for the warrior. I feel I am being ... that the foremost free nation in the world has decided to toss them aside? What words would you use? Tell me also how you would assure ...

Blog post - Jan 9 2012 - 5:55am - 36 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 - 8:17pm - 54 comments