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... H. Petraeus's conduct of the war, as well as the Army counterinsurgency doctrine he helped rewrite. General Petraeus will be ... recent criticisms by junior and mid-level officers of Army leadership's "lack of understanding of today's conflicts", a failure by that ...

Blog entry - Nov 17 2007 - 1:12am - 16 comments - 0 attachments

... Counterinsurgency as a Whole of Government Approach: Notes on the British Army ... communities are quite different. Think how the Chinese leadership deals with disparate social communities in the Middle Kingdom... ...

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

... Counterinsurgency Strategy Not Working in Afghanistan, Critics Say by David ... Pashtun populace within the FATA that support the Taliban leadership there. The key to the Ends provided by the President are in the ...

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

... The Great Myth: Counterinsurgency - Conn Hallinan, Foreign Policy in Focus. There are ... owners to take shallow readings of the tribal and village leadership structure nearly always led to failure in the areas I looked after. ...

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

... In the last decade, we jumped from pre-emptive war to counterinsurgency, and we are now moving to Foreign Internal Defense ... quickly that many of them are locally focused. While the leadership may have a global agenda, much of the followership is more concerned ...

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

... For 20 years (starting in General Zia's time) the army leadership connived in the creation and sustenance of multiple Jihadist ... in which the central government is the centrepiece of our counterinsurgency plan is destined to fail. It disenfranchises the very fabric ...

Journal Article - Dec 2 2010 - 10:22pm - 120 comments

... Lessons in Military Leadership: Learn to be a Manager by Peter Munson at Boats Against the ... to manage and adjust for unplanned situations, etc. His counterinsurgency doctrine is a first class management manual. A lower ...

Blog entry - Oct 15 2011 - 3:35pm - 9 comments - 0 attachments

... A counterinsurgency strategy based on the now-famous Field Manual 3-24, written ... the Colombian cartels resulted from taking down their leadership structure.  III.  COIN a la carte If ...

Journal Article - Dec 27 2011 - 5:10am - 42 comments

... On Leadership: A Question of Command - Paula Broadwell, Kings of War ... U.S. Marine Corps University, A Question of Command: Counterinsurgency from the Civil War to Iraq from Yale University Press, ...

Blog entry - Nov 2 2009 - 12:42am - 0 comments - 0 attachments

... Olson: Counterinsurgency Ops Should 'Involve Countering the Insurgents' - John T. ... their will. For whatever reason or reasons it was SOCOM leadership that changed the main GWOT lines of effort from direct to indirect, ...

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