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... The COINdinistas - Thomas E. Ricks, Foreign Policy . Who knows ... Pushed and prodded by a wonky group of Ph.D.s, the U.S. military has in the last year decisively embraced a Big Idea: ...

Blog entry - Nov 29 2009 - 4:12am - 25 comments - 0 attachments

... COIN Toss: The Cult of Counterinsurgency - Michael Crowley, The New Republic . ... but they were not COIN advocates or as some say COINdinistas until probably after 2004. Re: COIN Toss My bad, I meant ...

Blog entry - Jan 4 2010 - 12:54pm - 89 comments - 0 attachments

... Gian Gentile by Octavian Manea Download the Full Article : An Interview with Colonel Gian Gentile I've ... for "success" (however defined). Most typically, the COINdinistas trot out the "population" or the "host nation government," and I ...

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

... Wars? Today's General Politicks and Does P.R., Too is the title of a New York Times piece by Thom Shanker. It's a must read. ... present, and future was and is about. I give up, the Coindinistas have won. They now have articles in the New York Times that ...

Blog entry - Aug 12 2010 - 7:14pm - 62 comments - 0 attachments

... - Tom Ricks, Best Defense at Foreign Policy . The Army's study of what happened in the Wanat battle a year ago in eastern ... trying to be nice to people because I was really, as the Coindinistas love to accuse, hunkered down on a local Fob being comfortable and ...

Blog entry - Jul 23 2009 - 11:06am - 52 comments - 0 attachments

... How the U.S. military fell in love with 'Three Cups of Tea' by Greg Jaffe, ... Mortenson affair should not be kicked under the table by coindinistas like Exum and others. Instead it should be a wake up call to the ...

Blog entry - Apr 21 2011 - 2:31pm - 48 comments - 0 attachments

... Review of Dave Kilcullen's The Accidental Guerrilla: Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One by ... fight, and he knows this. Again, blatant job security for COINdinistas. Re: Kilcullen on COIN "Persistent-Presence" vs. ...

Blog entry - May 7 2010 - 10:51am - 49 comments - 0 attachments

... Understanding the Human Terrain: Key to Success in Afghanistan by Andrew Garfield ... the Rand Study on COIN vice the popular narrative by the COINdinistas). Although you are right above you are also dreaming that ...

Blog entry - Jul 16 2010 - 2:19am - 47 comments - 0 attachments

... - Spencer Ackerman, Washington Independent . The leak I got yesterday from Kandahar expressing skepticism that ... of all, I am in complete agreement with the paper, "A CIA COINdinistas Misgivings on Counterinsurgency in Afghanistan." I know the ...

Blog entry - May 13 2010 - 7:16pm - 45 comments - 0 attachments

... "A Few Random Thoughts on COIN Theory and the Future" (or A Partial Response to the Small Wars Journal Weekend ... Linn's more developed argument. And by the Way, the coindinistas over the years have had a field day with the Weigley thesis. ...

Blog entry - Sep 26 2009 - 6:42pm - 39 comments - 0 attachments