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The Post-COIN Era is Here

... The Post-COIN Era is Here - Mark Safranski, Zenpundit There has been, for years, an ...

Blog post - Jan 25 2010 - 4:23am - 3 comments - 0 attachments

How Afghanistan Ends

... Path to Peace by Linda Robinson Download the Full Article: How Afghanistan Ends This paper presents a scenario ... and integrity are part and parcel of the internet era; I appreciate SWJ's efforts to strike the right balance between free speech ...

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

This Week at War: End of the COIN Era?

... Obama's Afghan withdrawal speech may mark the end of the U.S. counterinsurgency experiment. Here is the latest ... to be seen. Re: This Week at War: End of the COIN Era? My first thought on the number was: Is that two or three FOBs? And my ...

Blog post - Jun 23 2011 - 1:30pm - 64 comments - 0 attachments

A Critical Perspective on Operational Art and Design Theory

... Counterinsurgency’s apparent sunset has left the military struggling for a new mission, but it will always have operational ... and Design as reactions against the industrial-era methods of decomposition inherent in the MDMP. Zwiebelson argues that the ...

Journal Article - Apr 30 2012 - 4:50am - 9 comments

This Week at War: Winners and Losers of the Defense Budget

... This week, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta rolled out the Pentagon's post-COIN budget. He's taking the military to the ... in offensive cyber capabilities in the post-Stuxnet era. Losers 1. Ground forces . As predicted, the active duty ...

Blog post - Jan 27 2012 - 5:51pm - 1 comment - 0 attachments

The Rise and Decline of Strategic Paralysis

... framework for operational adaptation must incorporate the effects of technological change, while avoiding the seductions of strategic ... way towards creating new joint operational concepts in an era that may once again foreground high-intensity informatized war and put ...

Journal Article - Sep 17 2011 - 5:08am - 11 comments

Are the FID missions in the Horn of Africa the model for the future?

... Last Friday's New York Times had a story about the U.S. government's support for the Somali government's effort to drive ... Iraq and Afghanistan, will the U.S. enter a "post-COIN" era? Will the current operations in Somalia and Yemen be the model for the ...

Blog post - Mar 8 2010 - 9:23am - 2 comments - 0 attachments