ISAF Intro to COIN Video Series
CSM Michael Hall, the ISAF Command Sergeant
Major, has created a series of Intro to COIN videos that are being featured on
the ISAF Channel at You Tube and
are worth a look. He is one of the point people for helping to educate
audiences from average folks on the street to political leaders to the force in
theater about the challenges of COIN in general and Afghanistan in particular.
The featured blurb here is the 6th and last in this series, "Nobody’s an
Afghan Expert" and subtitled "Counterinsurgency Can’t Be Looked At Through
Western Eyes."
The other five are:
- ISAF Vision
for Counterinsurgency
- ISAF
Message
- What is
"Hearts & Minds?"
- Partnering
- Protecting
the People
This is a nice, simple, applied blocking and
tackling reiteration of the challenges well treated in works from
Kilcullen.
See also CSM Hall’s blog entry
How to Win in Afghanistan and How to Lose, where three other would-be bombers
create an interesting foil to the donkey-equipped bomber trio in the
first video of
the series.
