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... by Braden Civins Download the Full Article: FM 3-24 COIN Manual Critique The U.S. Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field ...

Journal Article - May 5 2011 - 9:01pm - 73 comments

... 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 ... Petraeus and company were pretty innovative in developing FM 3-24 and implementing COIN, a surge, and night raids in both Iraq and ...

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

... Ahead of the COIN conference at Ft. Leavenworth, Robert C. Jones offers ten points for ... Army Seeks Input on Revision to FM 3-24 Bob, Thanks for the Bob, Thanks ...

Blog post - May 7 2012 - 5:12pm - 43 comments - 0 attachments

... element that just needs to "get over it" and support our COIN/CT agenda. We risk triggering a nuclear war with our meddling, and need ... Context, of the US Army Stability Operations Field Manual (FM 3-07)? (My copy, the University of Michigan Press Edition, 2009). ...

Journal Article - Dec 2 2010 - 11:22pm - 120 comments

... rough areas of London! What the surge/ introduction of FM 3-24 did, while perhaps not decisive, forced al Qaeda into a position where ... In this sense, and as much as this goes against the Coin-Surge narrative, General Casey's overall operational method in Iraq made ...

Blog post - Jan 24 2012 - 3:29pm - 40 comments - 0 attachments

... is it? LCol JJ Malevich, Canadian Exchange Officer, COIN Branch Chief, US Army/ USMC Counter Insurgency Center. This statement is ... UW. The rules of this game are far different from FM 3-24. While my written thoughts may be off a bit, I worked in these areas, ...

Blog post - Mar 12 2010 - 5:09pm - 91 comments - 0 attachments

... AFG and Iraq in the nation building/FID areas (pop centric COIN) and then suddenly BCTs had 15 plus enablers working in and around a Cmdr ... failed in Af Spent much of the day reading the new FM 5-0 and must confess that most of the droopy eyelid time was in the design ...

Journal Article - Jul 7 2011 - 4:24pm - 75 comments

... almost as soon as Design doctrine hit the streets in FM 5-0. However, as Ben rightly points out, the use of a separate ... I think complex environments demand that we (as our COIN doctrine states) push authority down to the lowest levels, trust our ...

Journal Article - Mar 11 2011 - 10:14am - 72 comments

... problem According to the FM 3-24 legitimacy is the “main objective” in a political ... will accept the form of legitimacy offered by the COIN force, one provided via elections and essential services. This is a major ...

Journal Article - Dec 25 2011 - 4:32am - 30 comments

... Evolving the COIN Field Manual: A Case for Reform by Carl Prine, Crispin Burke, ... staked on the efficacy and durability or failure of FM 3-24 and how it relates to the competing narratives about its use on the ...

Journal Article - Jul 22 2011 - 8:58am - 31 comments