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Celtic Trinity Knot

The key to understanding our wars: the trinity of COIN.

By / Leave a Comment / 2 March 2019

Summary:  Most of our wars since Korea have been counter-insurgencies (COIN), in which we employ a trinity of methods — firepower, mobility, and militia. It doesn’t work for us, or for any foreign armies doing COIN. Today we review the trinity and why it fails, and ask the more important question of why we don’t …

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The trinity of US tactics – a constant in our small wars but invisible to us. First, use massive firepower.

By / 21 Comments / 18 March 2015

Summary:  Awareness of self is as necessary for war as for other aspects of life.  It helps us see what we do, and better understand how others’ see us.  It’s the foundation for a functioning observation-orientation-decision-action (OODA) loop.  Our’s is broken, so we use our great power ineffectively.  Here we look at our use of massive …

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