Doctrine & TTPs [Archive] - Small Wars Council

Harsh Lessons: Iraq, Afghanistan and the Changing Character of War (3 replies)
A 'Digger' writes The Rise and Fall of Western COIN (18 replies)
Recognizing Distinct Types of Insurgency - "Know the type of conflict you are in." (66 replies)
20th Century Counterinsurgency Project (2 replies)
Dilemmas of counter-terror, stabilisation and statebuilding (0 replies)
Counter - Unconventional Warfare (2 replies)
Thrashing about is not a strategy (3 replies)
A 2d Look at the Powell Doctrine (0 replies)
Do Metrics Matter? (17 replies)
How to Lose a War: A Primer (1 replies)
The new 2014 FM 3-24 Insurgencies and Countering Insurgencies (29 replies)
Report - Making the Soldier Decisive on Future Battlefields (0 replies)
Eeben Barlow on why governments & armed forces fail at COIN (11 replies)
What is CQB? (21 replies)
Focus on CI versus Conventional warfighting (5 replies)
The Threat from Swarm Attacks (catch all) (4 replies)
Social Media and Unconventional Warfare (38 replies)
The Joint Planning Process (4 replies)
Well, is the SWC "kill, kill, kill the leadership" fever over finally? (8 replies)
Mass Insanity: Latest Trend in Army Doctrine (43 replies)
The Marine Corps and the Coming Fiscal Reality (6 replies)
US Army Irregular Warfare Fusion Cell (13 replies)
communist morality (2 replies)
Contextualizing Insurgency (17 replies)
National Military Strategy 2011 (0 replies)
Dave Barno’s top 10 tasks ... (3 replies)
Owning Battlespace (52 replies)
Porch shines a torch on COIN (30 replies)
Time for a FM 3-24: Counterinsurgency Update (105 replies)
Comparing the Modular BCT to the British Future Army Structure (5 replies)
AROTC STX Lanes (3 replies)
Returning to a Division Centric Army (93 replies)
Putting the T in METT-T (i.e., Terrain) (17 replies)
What’s doctrine between allies......? (0 replies)
Re-structuring the BCT (226 replies)
Applied Economics and Politics (TTP's) (21 replies)
Guiding Principles: DoS & S/CRS new stability doctrine (1 replies)
Electronic Publications (28 replies)
Brother can you spare a penny, or why no I in DME (9 replies)
Wilf Platoon Tactics (8 replies)
The New Counterinsurgency Era: Transforming the U.S. Military for Modern Wars (0 replies)
FM 3.07 and its SSR chapter - is anyone taking any notice? (0 replies)
COIN -v- CT debate (45 replies)
JP 3-24 released (8 replies)
How Operational Art Devoured Strategy (70 replies)
FM 5-0 (Revised Final Draft-2) Out For Staffing (3 replies)
How to be the Biggest Tribe (15 replies)
Small boat or brown water operations (13 replies)
FID or UW: And does it matter? (1 replies)
JFCOM -Credit where credit is due (1 replies)
Flawed Doctrine or Flawed Strategy? (42 replies)
BfSB (13 replies)
Plan,Organize and Train for SFA (22 replies)
The question... (42 replies)
How do you do it?... (8 replies)
"... and Jagdkampf Forces." March 1983? (16 replies)
Design for military operations (103 replies)
Fm 3-24.2 (24 replies)
Draft FM 5-0? (15 replies)
An IW “Bottle of Scotch” Challenge (76 replies)
Training for Full Spectrum Operations (5 replies)
DDR Lessons from Columbia (0 replies)
I'll take decisions that confuse me for a $100 Alex (70 replies)
FM 3.07: Stability Operations (Updated With FM Link) (13 replies)
The Gill Doctrine (Indian CT) (12 replies)
Sisyphus and Counterinsurgency (75 replies)
Military History and the Drafting of Doctrine (5 replies)
Revising FM 3-24: What needs to change? (58 replies)
Shortchanging the Joint Doctrine Fight (22 replies)
Simple Sabotage Field Manual (5 replies)
EBO damaging (2 replies)
Tomorrow's Army, Today's Challenges (1 replies)
The Challenge ofAdaptation: The US Army in the Aftermath of Conflict, 1953-2000. (1 replies)
Hard Hearts and Open Minds? (0 replies)
The US Military and COIN Doctrine, 1960-1970 and 2003-2006 (15 replies)
Rethinking Counterinsurgency RAND Counterinsurgency Study -- Volume 5 (2 replies)
The Counterinsurgency Cliff Notes (55 replies)
Effects Based Operations (EBO) - is it valid? (104 replies)
MCOs and SSOs in the 2008 edition of FM 3-0 Operations (11 replies)
More Fight, Less Fuel. Defense Science Board report. (3 replies)
A French Army's view on stabilization (9 replies)
FM 3-0 (Operations) Roll Out (115 replies)
We Still Need the Big Guns (102 replies)
Habitual association versus modularity (7 replies)
The Soldier's Pocket Book for Field Service - 1871 (0 replies)
Planning for Stability Ops (2 replies)
Targeting (78 replies)
“’Dishonest Doctrine:’ Or, How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love Coin Doctrine” (136 replies)
Emerging Unconventional Warfare Doctrine (1 replies)
Culmination Point (56 replies)
Counterinsurgency For U.S. Government Policymakers (66 replies)
Irregular Warfare: After Smart Weapons, Smart Soldiers (36 replies)
COIN of the Realm (10 replies)
New Maritime Strategy Released (3 replies)
FM3-24 and FM90-8 (53 replies)
U.S. PSYOPS Doctrine (10 replies)
What to Make of COIN Doctrine in Iraq (0 replies)
Collateral Damage and Counterinsurgency Doctrine (7 replies)
Culture battle: Selective use of history should not be used to justify the status quo (80 replies)
Airpower’s Crucial Role in Irregular Warfare (50 replies)
New JP 3-27 Homeland Defense (0 replies)
The Evolution and Importance of Army/Marine Corps Field Manual 3-24 (3 replies)
Techniques for securing and building relations with the people... (9 replies)
Non Kinetic surge capacity for COIN operations (5 replies)
A discussion, when does a game become.....bad??? (6 replies)
"Non Cents" (106 replies)
FM 3-24 Available in Hard Copy (2 replies)
The Andrew Bacevich collection (76 replies)
Small-Ldr's Guide to COIN MCIP 3-33.01 (26 replies)
Punitive Ops revisited (31 replies)
CAP in Iraq? (23 replies)
Vintage COIN and Stability Doctrine - Links (15 replies)
search for FM 31-73 (4 replies)
adpatation of the rifle platoon (2 replies)
'Can a Popular Inurgency Be Defeated?' (3 replies)
Fundamentals of the Battle Captain (13 replies)
Army Civil Affairs Operations (1 replies)
Special Forces Use of Pack Animals (58 replies)
General Petraeus: collection (280 replies)
Writing scenarios (3 replies)
Virtual War (42 replies)
Hearts and Minds? (32 replies)
The David Kilcullen Collection (merged thread) (451 replies)
Learning from Iraq: COIN in American Strategy (23 replies)
The high cost of having an inadequate force to space ratio (6 replies)
Army Gives Rumsfeld Doctrine a Rewrite (0 replies)
Military Review (10 replies)
Arabian Nightmares (8 replies)
New Training Village (4 replies)
CSIS 2006 POSOF Conference Report (0 replies)
New Counterinsurgency Manuals (15 replies)
America's Asymmetric Advantage (54 replies)
Joint Operations (2 replies)
COIN Redux (3 replies)
Air Power in the New COIN Era (100 replies)
COIN Seminar (3 replies)
Law Enforcement Methods for COIN Operations (1 replies)
FA in the Long War: A New Mission in COIN (4 replies)
Doctrine that Works (2 replies)
Counterinsurgency, by the Book (1 replies)
Anti tank weapons become anti personel weapons (23 replies)
Reforming Pentagon Strategic Decisionmaking (0 replies)
For those with access to Army's CALL (1 replies)
Systemic Operational Design (21 replies)
Did he say that? (0 replies)
U.S. Army / Marine COIN Doctrine (38 replies)
Our Enemies Aren't Drinking Lattes (12 replies)
Murdered Soldiers shouldn't have been left alone. (0 replies)
Counterinsurgency: Relearning How to Think (3 replies)
What would you change about current ops in Iraq? (30 replies)
War 101 (6 replies)
Theory vs. Practice (11 replies)
Is there merit to the Democratic proposal for a timetable? (3 replies)
Fm 3-24 (1 replies)
Options for Transitional Security Capabilities for America (1 replies)
Counterinsurgency Strategy: Staying Put (6 replies)
War's Risks Include Toll on Training Values (15 replies)
Progressive Reconstruction: A Methodology for Stabilization and Reconstruction (2 replies)
Planning Lessons From Afghanistan and Iraq (0 replies)
Disarmament of Population (23 replies)
Center of Gravity Construct (152 replies)
U.S. Military Is Split on Insurgency Strategy (4 replies)
The Conventional, SOF Debate in OIF. (36 replies)
So You Want to Be an Adviser (0 replies)
Military Strategies (18 replies)
Bloodless Theories, Bloody Wars (EBO) (5 replies)
Fundamentals of Company-level Counterinsurgency (60 replies)
Airmen Get New Skills for War (0 replies)
McMaster on war (merged thread) (111 replies)
Difficulty in WHAM (0 replies)
Iraq Documentaries (2 replies)
Fighting Smarter In Iraq (0 replies)
In the Battle for Baghdad, U.S. Turns War on Insurgents (1 replies)
Recognizing and Understanding Revolutionary Change in Warfare (0 replies)
Iraq-Bound Marine Leaders Cram on Civics and Economics (2 replies)
2006 Qdr (0 replies)
Lines of Operation (36 replies)
U.S. Troops in Iraq Adopt Oil Strategy (Andrew Krepinevich) (1 replies)
New Hearts and Minds (4 replies)
Wartime Lessons (2 replies)
British COIN (merged thread) (124 replies)
Army's Iraq Work Assailed by Briton (8 replies)
Analytical and Intuitive Methods of Decisionmaking (5 replies)
Training Iraqis Isn't Just Guns and Butter (0 replies)
Ahmen! (0 replies)
3rd Generation Gangs and the Iraqi Insurgency (4 replies)
Kinetic Targeting (1 replies)
Training commanders in-theater? (0 replies)
Rethinking the Challenge of COIN Warfare (7 replies)
Tactics of the Cresent Moon (16 replies)
Disarming the Local Population (14 replies)
COIN training (21 replies)
Are we securing the people? (23 replies)
US Doctrine Links (0 replies)