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 | THINKING AND WRITING ABOUT COIN By John T
Fred Kaplan has a good story to tell and he tells it well. Unfortunately, his account, although adding a great deal to the story, is both incomplete and, in a significant number of assertions, inaccurate. As participants in many of the events Kaplan partly covers and as scholars of those and other related events, we seek here to both fill out the story as well as correct the ...Read more > | 8 Pages 81.73 KB |
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 | COIN : IS CURRENT DOCTRINE COUNTERFEIT?
While the outcome of the Iraq war seems to have validated the U.S. Armys counterinsurgency manual FM 3-24, the war in Afghanistan seems to indicate there are fundamental problems associated with its historical principles and ...Read more > | 39 Pages 570.05 KB |
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 | ADDRESSING THE FOG OF COG
Counterinsurgency has defined the United States conventional military experience
from the summer of 2003 to the present. During this period American military forces
faced multiple insurgencies in Afghanistan, Iraq, the Philippines, and other areas. These operations brought heightened military and academic interest in counterinsurgency history, theory, and doctrine, precipitating efforts to update counterinsurgency ...Read more > | 185 Pages 2.12 MB |
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 | THE COINVENTIONAL WISDOM
How does the Army learn? What will we take from Afghanistan? How long before we think well know
what we should have done differently? Well, if Vietnam is any guide, then in forty years we will still be
arguing amongst ourselves what we should have ...Read more > | 8 Pages 336.21 KB |
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