If I may, the point about COIN not being strategy is that nothing in FM 3-24 (or, I suspect, its follow-on) resembles a strategy: not the principles, not the considerations, the guidance or the...
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COIN and strategy
If I may, the point about COIN not being strategy is that nothing in FM 3-24 (or, I suspect, its follow-on) resembles a strategy: not the principles, not the considerations, the guidance or the...
Reply to William F. Owen
Well you may be surprised to hear I agree with pretty much everything you said, particularly the bit about the need to study war AND warfare in depth and breadth. The problem is that by and large,...
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William F. Owen wrote
William (if I may),
The article attempted to provide some reasons why a concept that once was welcomed as a breath of fresh air after a decade plus of RMA-talk and...