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... The Myth of Hearts and Minds by Vegetius Download the full article: The Myth of ...

Journal Article - Nov 25 2009 - 7:57am - 25 comments

... to digress from my usual analysis of insurgent strategy and tactics to speak out on an issue of grave importance to Small Wars ... make firm those who believe. I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve. Therefore STRIKE OFF THEIR HEADS and strike off ...

Blog entry - Oct 31 2007 - 1:30pm - 215 comments - 0 attachments

... A primer to help move past COIN, CT, FID, SFA and start talking strategy to confront today's problems ... or unwittingly, in the secret superpower struggle for hearts and minds, the revelations of 1967 were one of the worst operational ...

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

... Have FST and CSTs teams pushed the limits of the female exclusion in combat ... us engage with Afghan females- and therefore we win their hearts and minds too- and we get intelligence from them. Little-heard positions, however ...

Journal Article - Nov 20 2011 - 7:34am - 46 comments

... written under the auspices of then-LTGs David Petraeus and James Mattis in 2006, is inappropriate for Mexico.  ... oft-cited tenets of COIN -- population control, winning hearts and minds, rural and urban development programs –- were major ...

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

... occurred on June 21, when Special Envoy Richard Holbrooke and U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Karl Eikenberry helicoptered into Marjah for ... insurgent forces, in this case the Taliban, and win the "hearts and minds" of the local people. In a sense Marjah has indeed defined ...

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

... is the control the government gains when the enemy is dead and gone. Control only exists when it is being applied, and it exists via the ... produced control over the resettled population. The hearts and minds that were won by Templer were those who were already on the ...

Blog entry - Jul 5 2011 - 8:00am - 98 comments - 0 attachments

... to find out whether he would be fired for remarks he and members of his staff made that were contemptuous of senior administration ... The bottomline here is that we are still in a "hearts & minds" mode of doing business over there of which McC is a ...

Blog entry - Jun 23 2010 - 5:04am - 89 comments - 0 attachments

... Thinking Critically about COIN and Creatively about Strategy and War An Interview with Colonel Gian ... the same Kodak moments with them. Kilkullen defined hearts and minds in a useful way in one of his articles or books (cant' recall ...

Journal Article - Dec 14 2010 - 7:37pm - 83 comments

... Can you point out the purpose of the military and of the use of military force in countering an insurgency? After all, the ... Chet: You are right, it hasn't worked; by that I mean hearts and minds, population centric counterinsurgency (FM 3-24) conducted by a ...

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