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... Bill... Update: Comment, via e-mail, on the new USG COIN Guide by Colonel John Agoglia, Director of the COIN Training Center in ...

Blog entry - Jan 16 2009 - 4:30pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments

... to produce the new US Government Counterinsurgency Guide . This guide, written in a collaborative "whole of government" ... "how-to" guide. Rather it is intended to be a "COIN 101" for policy-makers contemplating US intervention abroad. As ... (FM 3-07), some cringe at the mere articulation of COIN principles in an official government publication; suspecting it might lead ...

Blog entry - Feb 22 2009 - 9:41am - 0 comments - 0 attachments

... in 2006, is therefore inappropriate for Mexico.  Some COIN principles and practices – what the author calls COIN a la carte ... may be of interest to the Mexican Government, however the USG does not have the available skill set, nor the political stamina, required ...

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

... is not to be confused with the tactical approach to COIN being practiced in Afghanistan, but rather is a shifting of priority ... a school?:) ), Who says that things are limited to USG (or any Gov for that matter) involvement with 'the people'? That ...

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

... Evolving the COIN Field Manual: A Case for Reform by Carl Prine, Crispin Burke, ... For the foreseeable future, the United States Government (USG) will continue to intervene in varying scale and scope in order to promote ...

Journal Article - Jul 22 2011 - 7:58am - 31 comments

... "By that, I mean contemporary, mid-2000's "pop-centric" COIN theory as expressed in FM 3-24 - is it de facto dead as USG policy or is COIN theory formally evolved to officially embrace strong ...

Blog entry - Feb 10 2011 - 1:02am - 29 comments - 0 attachments

... Task Force on Defense Intelligence Counterinsurgency (COIN) Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) Operations . ... Here, here, Gian. I participated in the USG COIN Guide development for a short time and the intentions were genuine, ...

Blog entry - May 25 2011 - 9:35pm - 20 comments - 0 attachments

... are for both Iraq and Afghanistan), then neither FID nor COIN addresses that approach. What did the communists call it when they did ... but FID and Stability Operations are also areas that the USG needs to improve in, and we have years of peace operations (a subset of ...

Blog entry - Nov 3 2011 - 3:14pm - 17 comments - 0 attachments

... like "counterinsurgency strategy" or the elevation of Coin tactical methods like "population protection" to strategic principles and ... ( scientists, historians, futurists) into the mix of usual USG/DIME "wise men", who see beyond the usual institutional legacies/political ...

Journal Article - Sep 18 2009 - 7:50am - 25 comments

... states and societies. (Such things as "nation-building" COIN -- and R2P -- to be understood from this perspective.) Thus, is it ... grow. That is still an open ended question. Still the USG has realized this war is more about ideas than kinetics, but that doesn't ...

Journal Article - Nov 10 2011 - 2:17pm - 7 comments