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... PRC is engaged in a wait and exploit strategy. r/ MAC Re: Irregular Warfare on the Korean Peninsula "Planning is ... us where we are in either Iraq or Afghanistan (was it our COIN efforts, was it enemy mistakes, what combination of both, etc.?). We need ...

Journal Article - Nov 30 2010 - 8:17pm - 54 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 ... a little, because he was the champion of closed systems. Mac OS X is a great operating system with a lot of virtues, but it was built on ...

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

... Implementing COIN Doctrine in the Absence of a Legitimate State by David C. Ellis ... management. Makes your head hurt... :-) r/ MAC Re: Implementing COIN Doctrine in the Absence of a Legitimate St ...

Journal Article - Oct 13 2010 - 2:39pm - 60 comments

... 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 ... Dave D. Re: How Afghanistan Ends "Second, and MAC made me think of this; what if the ISI did something completely ...

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

... an insurgency? After all, the classic counterinsurgency (COIN) arithmetic suggested by David Galula is now the conventional wisdom: 80% ... herd every now and then and watch it stampede... r/ MAC Re: Counterinsurgency as a Whole of Government Approach I have to ...

Journal Article - Jan 26 2011 - 6:54am - 79 comments

... is it? LCol JJ Malevich, Canadian Exchange Officer, COIN Branch Chief, US Army/ USMC Counter Insurgency Center. This statement is ... fight and don't let the bastards get you down. v/r MAC Re: It's the Tribes? That's Stupid. "Lets look at the ...

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

... is not to be confused with the tactical approach to COIN being practiced in Afghanistan, but rather is a shifting of priority ... Happy Super Bowl Day... Go Steelers! r/ MAC Re: A Populace-Centric Foreign Policy O.K. during the 2d half ...

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

... Kilcullen (I): Here's What Not to Measure in a COIN Campaign - Tom Ricks at FP's Best Defense. When David ... at discussing how to wage a counterinsurgency campaign. And I think the Australian infantry officer turned political ... works on the ground. How is that for a metric? r/ MAC ...

Blog post - Feb 8 2010 - 2:36pm - 79 comments - 0 attachments

... No empirical proof... just a gut feel. r/ MAC Re: Private Contractors in Conflict Zones: The Good, the Bad, an ... It left too bitter a taste in the collective mouth (to coin a phrase). Perhaps I am naïve, but I suspect that a much more ...

Blog post - Oct 27 2010 - 6:32pm - 30 comments - 0 attachments

... I think complex environments demand that we (as our COIN doctrine states) push authority down to the lowest levels, trust our ... tripped up by our jargons to describe effects. v/r MAC Re: To Design or Not to Design (Part Two) "I think what we need to ...

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