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As Afghans Resist Taliban, US Spurs Rise of Militias - Dexter Filkens, New York Times.American and Afghan officials have begun helping a number of anti-Taliban militias that have independently taken up arms against insurgents (Read More)
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Afghan Tribes to the Rescue? - David Ignatius, Washington Post opinion.While military officers wait for President Obama to conclude his agonizingly slow review of Afghanistan policy, they've been reading a paper by an Army Sp (Read More)
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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, C (Read More)
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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 Washingt (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 buil (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 cover (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 tr (Read More)
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London, November 19 (ANI): A 19th century medal created to mark the hanging of a cheating banker has been put up for sale in London.The coin came into being for the hanging of Henry Fauntleroy, who forged cheques at his bank (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 counterinsu (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. (Read More)
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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 (Read More)
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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 m (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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Army Tells its Soldiers to 'Bribe' the Taleban - Michael Evans, The Times.British forces should buy off potential Taleban recruits with “bags of gold”, according to a new army field manual published yesterday. Army commanders (Read More)
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Kilcullen on COIN and the adaptive Taliban: ". David Kilcullen, the Australian counterinsurgency guru who advised Gen. David Petraeus in Iraq, gave an hour-long talk tonight at Johns Hopkins' School of Advanced International (Read More)
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1st Battalion, 5th Marines PowerPoint AAR - COIN in Helmand: After the Clear, Thoughts and Tips on Non Kinetic Actions - most certainly worth a thousand words. (Read More)
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As most of you probably know, over the past few years the U.S. military has been engaged in an extensive internal debate about counter-insurgency warfare. This is partly a debate about COIN tactics and techniques -- in other (Read More)
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A Blue Line in Afghanistan - Michael O'Hanlon, Washington Post opinion.As President Obama wrestles with whether to send more troops to Afghanistan despite widespread corruption in the government of Hamid Karzai, little attent (Read More)
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New Zealand Herald - World:
One day after her husband was honoured with a commemorative dollar coin, Terri Irwin is being attacked over an out-of-control bushfire at the suspected site of the Crocodile Hunter's secret burial ground.Neighbouring land own (Read More)
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