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... Stories: CBS 60 Minutes, 17 April 2011 Hat tip to Galrahn at Information Dissemination via Twitter. Carolyn Kellogg at the ... - CAI Update 8 Stranger than Fiction: What We're Really Losing with Greg Mortenson's Fall by Joshua Foust, PBS. ...

Blog entry - Apr 18 2011 - 7:06pm - 59 comments - 0 attachments

... COIN Manpower Ratios: Debunking the 10 to 1 Ratio and Surges by Joshua Thiel Download The Full ... military personnel to analyze insurgencies are governed by what is known as the 10 to 1 ratio or expenditure ratio, the minimum ...

Journal Article - Jan 15 2011 - 7:33am - 25 comments

... for our military and for our country. I'm also pleased to nominate General David Petraeus to take command in Afghanistan, which will ... ability to explain counterinsurgency, to explain what interests are at stake and to explain the possibility of success and the ...

Blog entry - Jun 24 2010 - 4:35am - 31 comments - 0 attachments

... Despite assertions to the contrary, the violence, drug trafficking and lawlessness that we see in ... Mexico.  Some COIN principles and practices – what the author calls COIN a la carte – can, however, support the ...

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

... How Afghanistan Ends: A Political-Military Path to Peace by Linda Robinson Download the Full Article: How ... Why would India invade Pakistan in the first place? What is the plan that is thought to lead to an Indian invasion? This is ...

Journal Article - Dec 2 2010 - 10:22pm - 120 comments

... when Special Envoy Richard Holbrooke and U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Karl Eikenberry helicoptered into Marjah for a photo op with the ... of many non-US Battlepace owners. If anything what is missing in COIN is the imposition of forward objectives or KPIs on ...

Blog entry - Jul 25 2010 - 3:27am - 47 comments - 0 attachments

... Killing Your Way to Control by William F. Owen British Army Review, Spring 2011 ... to do so. My own approach is to advocating applying what is today the mainstream approach to COIN--the limited force model--only in ...

Blog entry - Jul 5 2011 - 8:00am - 98 comments - 0 attachments

... Got Into McChrystal's Inner Circle - Newsweek What Happened in Paris... - Foreign Policy Update 4: ... President Obama's top commander in Afghanistan flew to Washington on Tuesday to find out whether he would be fired for remarks he ...

Blog entry - Jun 23 2010 - 5:04am - 89 comments - 0 attachments

... When you are a stranger in a strange land, you need to be aware of, and hold on to, and be proud of your culture. In my experience ... notions and silver bullets to extricate ourselves from what seems like an unending conflict. The latest great hope is the tribes. The ...

Blog entry - Mar 12 2010 - 4:09pm - 91 comments - 0 attachments

... its applicability for today's COIN campaigns and you seem to identify a special kind of lesson or warning than the ones that influenced ... COIN and Creatively about Strategy Why not tell us what exactly this marvelous math is, and what it says, instead of just telling ...

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