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The Right Tool for the Job: An Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Counterinsurgency Principles against Criminal Insurgency

... cultural root causes. This study will briefly review the evolution of the concept of criminal insurgency. The study will then examine ... Wars Journal , 2008; Sullivan and Elkus “Cartel vs. Cartel: Mexico’s Criminal Insurgency,” Small Wars Journal , ...

Resource - Feb 11 2012 - 10:17am - 0 comments - 1 attachment

The Targeting Process: D3A and F3EAD

... of Operations have presented the U.S. Army with constant evolution of complex situations that have routinely highlighted shortfalls in ... interwined and it is definitely not a case of the chicken vs egg mindset as targeting is the first step in any operation---many have ...

Journal Article - Jul 16 2011 - 8:50am - 57 comments

Design Theory and the Military’s Understanding of Our Complex World

... adaption expresses itself in the form of innovation or evolution which then forces them to readjust their own Design box as they view ... to universally apply, or is he limited to purely human-vs-human conflict (which I would still argue he mostly works on state-vs-state ...

Journal Article - Aug 7 2011 - 12:30pm - 83 comments

The COIN Approach to Mexican Drug Cartels: Square Peg in a Round Hole

... entitled, “Has Mérida Evolved? Part One: The Evolution of Drug Cartels and the Threat to Mexico’s Governance,” ... of the populace is required to have an insurgency vs. a coup." Frankly I think this is an immaterial point that many focus on. ...

Journal Article - Dec 27 2011 - 6:10am - 42 comments

A Populace-Centric Foreign Policy

... well that they would lose in such a match of weak state vs. strong state. One component of becoming more "populace-centric" in our ... why these threats exist and often slows their demise or evolution. Also not making the preservation of any particular government ...

Blog post - Feb 4 2011 - 5:19pm - 90 comments - 0 attachments

COIN Toss

... the allied facts that tasks vary widely (e.g. Desert Storm vs. OIF 1), that conditions vary even more widely (e.e those same two ... integrate them to reach successful conclusion of or in an evolution (see the same two operations, plus meld 'Navigate using a map' and ...

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

Does The United States Still Need USSOCOM? (Updated)

... happening in the age old internal debate of tank on tank vs. UW/FID as regular Army would love to get back to tank on tank which is why ... so." Really? Amazing statement. I see examples of evolution in all the services almost daily... The current environment at ...

Journal Article - Dec 13 2009 - 11:25am - 77 comments

On General Krulak's E-mail to George Will

... might be the British Strategy (I am using the latter evolution of that Strategy by early spring 1777) to defeat the colonists in ... on your point. Could you use an example of WWII strategy vs. tactical tasks to illustrate what you mean? Full spectrum operations was ...

Blog post - Sep 11 2009 - 4:43am - 63 comments - 0 attachments

Non-Linear Intuition

... war as it exists in living, breathing, inter-active life vs. scripted, limited and designed events subject to artificial constraints. ... act. I was thinking about the terms "revolution" and "evolution" today and what that means to us. Given the non-linear environment of ...

Blog post - Oct 1 2007 - 12:30am - 17 comments - 0 attachments