Your COIN Is No Good Here; Don’t Abandon COIN
10.27.2010 at 12:28pm
Your COIN Is No Good Here – Foreign Affairs opinion piece by James Dobbins. Summary: “President Obama’s advisers agree that the Taliban is an insurgency and that the United States has a real interest in stopping its return to power. Why, then, would some argue against using counterinsurgency, the strategy designed to fight such uprisings?”
Don’t Abandon COIN – Defense News editorial. Commentary argues that now that America isn’t fighting two major COIN operations it’s time to change training. Yet the Army must take care not to shift too much, turning its back entirely on COIN.
