A Mudville posted link to A Handful of Dust, The Disenchanted Corporal.The term "strategic corporal" has become symbolic of COIN. Kilcullen first used it to urge commanders to use all of their resources, regardless of rank, to get the job done. Rank doesn't matter, talent does. It is also used to symbolize the need for every member of the company to buy into COIN and apply it every day. A Handful of Dust suggests that one of the problems may be "disenchantment", the daily grind, wearing down any enthusiasm for COIN's application:...the nature of counterinsurgency is such that its tenets...
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Jul 02 2010, 08:33 AM
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Argghhh! The Home Of Two Of Jonah's Military Guys..