No, COIN is Not a Proven Failure
No, COIN is Not a Proven Failure
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COIN & the Capitalists: Private Sector Development and the Endgame in Afghanistan
COIN & the Capitalists: Private Sector Development and the Endgame in Afghanistan
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CNAS: Don’t Forget COIN, Because COIN Threat’s Getting Worse
CNAS: Don’t Forget COIN, Because COIN Threat’s Getting Worse
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Rethinking Western COIN: Lessons from Post-Colonial Conflicts
Rethinking Western COIN: Lessons from Post-Colonial Conflicts
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COIN Logistics: Let’s Do Camels
COIN Logistics: Let’s Do Camels
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On Winning Hearts and Minds: Key Conditions for Population-Centric COIN
On Winning Hearts and Minds: Key Conditions for Population-Centric COIN
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COIN Counterinsurgency (merged thread)
No COIN Left In Afghanistan – Or The Elephant In The Room That No One Is Talking Abou
No COIN Left In Afghanistan – Or The Elephant In The Room That No One Is Talking About
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Guard Should Specialize In COIN: War College Study
Guard Should Specialize In COIN: War College Study
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How COIN Theory Explains Organizational Change
How COIN Theory Explains Organizational Change
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The COIN Conundrum: The Future of Counterinsurgency and U.S. Land Power
The COIN Conundrum: The Future of Counterinsurgency and U.S. Land Power
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Where Are the Women? The Unfortunate Omission in the Army’s COIN Doctrine
Where Are the Women? The Unfortunate Omission in the Army’s COIN Doctrine
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Insurgent Justice: Why and how do rebels make law?
Citing David Betz @ Kings War Studies acclaim for this new book:
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Insurgencies win by out-governing the status quo power and the primary thrust of their strategy is nearly always the provision of alternative justice to populations hungry for better law. Frank Ledwidge’s brilliant book plugs the gap in the literature commendably. It is indispensable reading.
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This indispensable book explains how courts are now part of the broader battlefield, deployed by both insurgents and state forces in a world convulsed by unconventional warfare.
In most societies, courts are where the rubber of government meets the road of the people. If a state cannot settle disputes and enforce its decisions, to all intents and purposes it is no longer in charge. This is why successful rebels put courts and justice at the top of their agendas. Rebel Law explores this key weapon in the arsenal of insurgent groups, from the IRA’s ‘Republican Tribunals’ of the 1920s to Islamic State’s ‘Caliphate of Law’, via the ALN in Algeria of the ‘50s and 60s and the Afghan Taliban of recent years.
Frank Ledwidge delineates the battle in such ungoverned spaces between counterinsurgents seeking to retain the initiative and the insurgent courts undermining them. Contrasting colonial judicial strategy with the chaos of stabilisation operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, he offers compelling lessons for today’s conflicts.
Link:http://us2.campaign-archive2.com/?u=...0&e=80d42c7c0a
The author has an interesting bio indicated here:http://www.port.ac.uk/strategy-enter...-ledwidge.html
Reassessing Counterinsurgency: Theory and Practice
This was a 2012 conference, held in Austin, Texas, with Kings College London, University of Queensland and the hosts The Robert Strauss Center. There is a list of articles by the speakers and on a quick check the links do work. Some names are familiar, others not and SWJ does appear.:)
There is a strong British emphasis, so a couple of Northern Ireland articles will appear on that thread.
Link:https://reassessingcounterinsurgency....com/articles/
A major hole in COIN scholarship
Hat tip to WoTR for this commentary cum book review of Walter C. Ladwig III, The Forgotten Front: Patron Client Relations in Counterinsurgency (Cambridge University Press, 2017):
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The King’s College London professor takes direct aim at FM 3-24, and the West’s thinking on counterinsurgency, specifically its naiveté that the patron and client will share common political goals if the patron is doling out large sums of cash to the client.
(Later) Ladwig shines a bright light on some of the deficiencies in counterinsurgency literature and the United States’ naiveté about its relationship with its clients. His goal is to improve the West’s performance in future counterinsurgency battles.
Link:https://warontherocks.com/2017/08/ho...ency-campaign/
British Counterinsurgency: Returning Discriminate Coercion to COIN
British Counterinsurgency: Returning Discriminate Coercion to COIN
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