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... Disruptive thinkers: the way to reinvigorate a senseless bureaucracy or a threat to the ... 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 ...

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

... The So-Called COIN Debate and Institutional Memory by Bill Van Horn, Small Wars ...

Journal Article - Apr 8 2009 - 5:00pm - 8 comments

... Christopher Bassford offers a saucy counterpoint to the Cordesman suggestion that we continue to muddle through in Afghanistan. ... the COG trap to some degree, and indirectly promoting the COIN theory that the people are always the COG, which like any other proposed ...

Journal Article - Mar 3 2012 - 11:26am - 45 comments

... we focus more on creating ink spots and less on defeating the Taliban? Success in Afghanistan is not and ... 7 Observations on Population-Centric COIN Show Author Info?:  ...

Journal Article - May 21 2012 - 5:48am - 29 comments

... Path to Peace by Linda Robinson Download the Full Article: How Afghanistan Ends This paper presents a scenario ... 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 ...

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

... Owen British Army Review, Spring 2011 Download the Full Article: Killing Your Way to Control The population is not ... applying what is today the mainstream approach to COIN--the limited force model--only in cultures and contexts where it has a ...

Blog post - Jul 5 2011 - 9:00am - 98 comments - 0 attachments

... COIN Toss: The Cult of Counterinsurgency - Michael Crowley, The New Republic . ...

Blog post - Jan 4 2010 - 1:54pm - 89 comments - 0 attachments

... The Economist offers a piece about breakthroughs in modeling civil wars. ... quite complex, perhaps even more so than the experts of coin and irregular warfare have come to believe. I propose that the author ...

Blog post - Apr 21 2012 - 8:02am - 15 comments - 0 attachments

... Guest post by Robert C. Jones: The Department of State focuses on governments.  The Department of Defense ... is not to be confused with the tactical approach to COIN being practiced in Afghanistan, but rather is a shifting of priority ...

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

... The "Story" The Runaway General - Michael Hastings, Rolling Stone ... year war that never did have any focus or manpower. 4. COIN in Afghanistan is not COIN in Iraq. It is over. Re: General ...

Blog post - Jun 23 2010 - 6:04am - 89 comments - 0 attachments