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... Counterinsurgency Strategy Not Working in Afghanistan, Critics Say by David ... "But they are hard to articulate with an Army and senior leaders who've been doing this for nine years and are morally committed to it ...

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

... Tribal Engagement and the Heavy History of Counterinsurgency Light by Hannah Gurman Download the full ... Taliban factions to exploit the movements more ambitious leaders and inherent rivalries. Like it or not this is the way the locals ...

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

... The Great Myth: Counterinsurgency - Conn Hallinan, Foreign Policy in Focus. There are ... There is also a niave pursuit by Coalition Force political leaders in London and Washington DC to pursue a Kabul-centric approach to ...

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

... Philippines a Model for Counterinsurgency by Jim Michaels, USA Today. BLUF: "Though not widely known, ... the problem worse). However, I'm not sure our government leaders are qualified (the military definitely isn't) to provide this type of ...

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 ... as those suppressive efforts are lifted. I doubt senior leaders believe it to be more than that. Karzai and his Northern Alliance ...

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

... Is Our Afghanistan Counterinsurgency Approach Irrelevant? by Colonel Lawrence Sellin ... out. I don't say Pakistani gov because the civilian leaders have no power at all over the army or intel forces. If they try to ...

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

... conversation on the need/utility of rethinking FM 3-24, Counterinsurgency. You can help them out by spending 10 minutes on this ... guide based on lessons learned in Vietnam for tactical leaders going to Vietnam. Tools like this are very valuable and we need to do ...

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

... Civil Society and Counterinsurgency by A. Lawrence Chickering Download the ... democracy, avoiding autocratic systems dominated by gang leaders. For more on this, see my recent article "Humanizing 'The Man'", ...

Journal Article - Nov 3 2010 - 7:48am - 28 comments

... In the last decade, we jumped from pre-emptive war to counterinsurgency, and we are now moving to Foreign Internal Defense ... I argued that the interaction of our civilian and military leaders, plus the interjection of the democratic public after a time, result in ...

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

... pal Niel Smith argues that the Army has institutionalized counterinsurgency so poorly that officers can fool themselves into embracing ... and deepening relationship with the U.S. military, whose leaders have increasingly turned to Mortenson, once a shaggy mountaineer, to ...

Blog entry - Apr 18 2011 - 7:06pm - 59 comments - 0 attachments