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U.S. Army / Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Workshop Videos - Watch the presentations from the COIN Center's COIN Leaders Workshop held 27 - 29 October 2009. Includes a COIN Center overview, COIN doctrine, urban simulation, COIN lessons learned from OIF and OEF, the Soviet approach to COIN and border operations in Afghanist (Read More)
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COIN counterinsurgency - Google Blog Search:
But it must be said that Casey did “get” counterinsurgency, doing things like setting up a COIN academy at Taji to train incoming officers, among other initiatives. The problem is that the direction he received from Washington was at ... (Read More)
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Positive Petraeus Lessons - Mary Claire Kendall, Washington Times opinion.The essence of counterinsurgency strategy (COIN), integral to defeating Sept. 11, 2001-type extremists infecting various Middle East countries, is building confidence among the population. The key is working hand-in-glove with the respective military (Read More)
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Dr. Chet Richards announced that DNI is set to adjourn sine die.DNI set to close Probably on Monday, November 23, depending on how my travels work out. Please go ahead and download any thing you’d like to keep — I’d particularly recommend Boyd’s briefings and the 4GW manuals. I have great faith in the growing number of blo (Read More)
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Counterinsurgency: The Challenge for NATO Strategy and Operations (250 pages - pdf). Produced by the NATO Defense College and edited by Dr. Christopher Schnaubelt, this document includes an introduction and 11 chapters covering NATO’s COIN challenges and implications, lessons from Afghanistan, hybrid adversaries, balancing (Read More)
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Mr. Obama’s Task - New York Times editorial.There is no doubt that the prospects for success in Afghanistan are so bleak right now because former President George W. Bush failed for seven long years to invest the necessary troops, resources or attention to the war. But it is now President Obama’s war, and the American peopl (Read More)
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Defense and the National Interest:
Probably on Monday, November 23, depending on how my travels work out. Please go ahead and download any thing you’d like to keep — I’d particularly recommend Boyd’s briefings and the 4GW manuals.I have great faith in the growing number of bloggers and commentators who cover many of the same subjects we did — check out a few (Read More)
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Counterterrorism Blog:
A New York-based Muslim extremist group known for its unabashed support for violence against Jews and others posted a link on its website Tuesday branding American Islamic Forum for Democracy (AIFD) Executive Director, M. Zuhdi Jasser, a "murtad," or apostate. Being labeled an apostate – a Muslim who renounces Islam – is a (Read More)
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Understanding the Surge from ISW on Vimeo.The Surge: the Untold Story is a 34 minute documentary produced by the Institute for the Study of War. This video documents the Iraq Surge as part of a population-centric counterinsurgency approach and features many of the top commanders and others responsible for its implementatio (Read More)
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COIN counterinsurgency - Google Blog Search:
Afghan forces, a key to McChrystal's flying pie counterinsurgency (COIN) strategy, are worse than useless. They're as on-the-take as their President, Hamid Karzai. McChrystal wants a combination of U.S., NATO and Afghanistan forces that ... (Read More)
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Stephen Walt questions our love for counterinsurgency, and the Battle of Algiers. Just wanted to flag this graf from Stephen Walt's post on the suspect merits of COIN. Makes a few good points, I think. COIN is the best answer if one ... (Read More)
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Afghan Corruption Concerns US Policy Planners - Gary Thomas, Voice of America.Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai has been roundly criticized in the international community for presiding over a corrupt government. A new report reinforces the perception of widespread corruption in Afghanistan, naming it the second most corrup (Read More)
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Global Guerrillas:
Some utterly random items of interest:“There’s no point in talking to people who don’t have blood on their hands" and bribe potential Taliban recruits with bags of gold. Updated UK COIN manual. US: Wall Street ethos hits main street. Middle class shoplifting zooming. "many people feeling the entire system is broken, th (Read More)
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The latest U.S. Army / Marine Corps COIN Center SITREP - Includes Counterinsurgency, Stability Operations, and Security Forces Assistance updates. (Read More)
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Richard Fernandez of the Belmont Club writes a very well done essay on the present Afghanistan decision making process. He compares Andrew Sullivan's apologia with David Kilcullen's concerns about the time involved in reaching a decision. You can disregard the Sullivan part except to understand that he thinks it is just mar (Read More)
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