Iraq Counterinsurgency Assessment
On 20 March, Colonel Daniel Roper, Director of the U.S. Army and Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Center, particpated in a DoD Bloggers Roundtable to share his views on our COIN efforts in light of his two recent trips to Iraq. The transcript of this roundtable can be found here.
More on this roundtable at Argghhh! – Counterinsurgency: Forest and Trees.
Also on the 20th, Colonel Peter Baker, Commander of the 214th Fires Brigade, particpated in a roundtable to discuss the Provincial Reconstruction Team in Iraq’s Wasit province and several programs the PRT has undertaken to build long-term policing, education, medical, and engineering capacities. That transcript can be found here.