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... Counterinsurgency as a Whole of Government Approach: Notes on the British Army ... Can you point out the purpose of the military and of the use of military force in countering an insurgency? After all, the ...

Journal Article - Jan 26 2011 - 5:54am - 79 comments

... Counterinsurgency Strategy Not Working in Afghanistan, Critics Say by David Wood, Politics Daily . BLUF: "Experts on Afghanistan and on counterinsurgency, among them active-duty and retired military officers, ...

Blog entry - Jan 12 2011 - 7:44am - 71 comments - 0 attachments

... The Great Myth: Counterinsurgency - Conn Hallinan, Foreign Policy in Focus. There are ... occurred on June 21, when Special Envoy Richard Holbrooke and U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Karl Eikenberry helicoptered into Marjah for ...

Blog entry - Jul 25 2010 - 3:27am - 47 comments - 0 attachments

... Tribal Engagement and the Heavy History of Counterinsurgency Light by Hannah Gurman Download the full ...

Journal Article - Jun 6 2010 - 6:50pm - 50 comments

... Olson: Counterinsurgency Ops Should 'Involve Countering the Insurgents' - John T. ... place too much emphasis on protecting local peoples and not enough on fighting enemy forces, said U.S. Special Operations Command ...

Blog entry - May 26 2010 - 12:49pm - 36 comments - 0 attachments

... Philippines a Model for Counterinsurgency by Jim Michaels, USA Today. BLUF: "Though not widely known, ... here has given the Philippine military the tools and know-how to decimate Abu Sayyaf on its own and have created what some ...

Blog entry - Mar 30 2011 - 6:45am - 41 comments - 0 attachments

... Can Development Win a Counterinsurgency? By Maura O'Connor, Slate. BLUF: "When people hear about ... work in Afghanistan, they think about "winning hearts and minds" through humanitarian aid or building schools. The idea is that if ...

Blog entry - Jun 2 2011 - 5:23pm - 31 comments - 0 attachments

... Is Our Afghanistan Counterinsurgency Approach Irrelevant? by Colonel Lawrence Sellin ... Division, U.S. Delegation, Four Party Joint Military Team and Colonel Tu, Chief of the North Vietnamese Delegation. Colonel Summers ...

Journal Article - Dec 29 2010 - 2:05pm - 26 comments

... that one American could help change the lives of Afghans and bring light and learning to a troubled part of the world." ... not need to be told about "the don't be a jerk school of counterinsurgency." But then there are many of us who continue to search for ...

Blog entry - Apr 21 2011 - 2:31pm - 48 comments - 0 attachments

... conversation on the need/utility of rethinking FM 3-24, Counterinsurgency. You can help them out by spending 10 minutes on this ... says it all when it comes to the nature of the publication and I quote... "The FM is designed to fill a doctrinal gap" and "that every ...

Blog entry - Dec 2 2010 - 3:07pm - 34 comments - 0 attachments