For several years I have wondered why, if our COIN methods of understanding and manipulating foreign cultures work so well, why we did not apply them in America’s failed “states” — our inner cities. The leaders of Washington DC have taken up this dare. The Examiner explains: Under an executive order expected to be announced …
COIN making life better for an American city (is this good news?) Read More »
Future historians will be after to follow our efforts in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars relying only on the works of David Kilcullen, Special Advisor for Counterinsurgency to the Secretary of State, officer in the Australian Army, anthropologist, top expert in counter-insurgency. (See below for a bio). His writing, along with that of a small number of …
Another “must-read” presentation by Kilcullen about COIN Read More »
Here is an question by Jason lifted from the comments on A solution to 4GW — the introduction. Fabius, if you reference “Masters of War” by Michael Handel (which I am reading), the author makes the point that even 4GW is Trinitarian since you still have the three components – the state, the populace, and the non-state actor. …
Here and here I discussed our tactical retreat in Anbar Province of Iraq. Dan Tdaxp raises an interesting and valuable question (here) about this: what does “retreat” mean in 4GW? The previous generations of war occured in physical space. We plot their course on maps, using lines and arrows. A 3GW “retreat” means movement away from geographic objectives. Can we …
ABCDs for today: About Blitzkrieg, COIN, and Diplomacy Read More »
