Keep Fighting: Why the Counterinsurgency Debate Must Go On
12.04.2013 at 08:32am
Keep Fighting: Why the Counterinsurgency Debate Must Go On by Mark Stout, War on the Rocks.
Counterinsurgency (COIN) doctrine in general and the military’s FM 3-24 in particular have been the subject of extensive and often vitriolic debate in recent years. Now the debate is finally subsiding, but not in a satisfactory way. It must not be allowed to die yet.
The broad cycles of the counterinsurgency debate have followed a dialectical process as so many other historical and political debates do…
