First up -
General McChrystal's assessment, if you hadn't read it. It has a very "deja vu" sense to me, where his descriptions of the current ISAF operational focus reads an awful lot like Vietnam - and the hows and why's that must change.
The second is a "
Population-Centric COIN for Dummies" from the Warrior Legacy Institute, authored by some well-known milbloggers and published by the Warrior Legacy Foundation.
They'll give you something to think about.
Read the complete post at http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/10/two_useful_docu.html
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Oct 06 2009, 06:47 AM
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Argghhh! The Home Of Two Of Jonah's Military Guys..