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    Metrics are very hard to get in...

    Metrics are very hard to get in COIN/stabilization/peacekeeping, particularly leading measures. It's easy to get a metric that will tell you that you were doing really great--or really poorly--six...
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    Symposium

    JohnT,

    Thanks for your kind comments. But I'll take exception to even the mild criticism. First, I never claimed there was no research on small wars/COIN/IW/etc. I saw too many early drafts of...
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    I think Galula has achieved cult-like status in the Army because his insights resonate with our experiences. As I've written elsewhere, I did not read Galula until I returned from my first OIF tour,...
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    Mark, I'm on record as saying we have two...

    Mark,

    I'm on record as saying we have two missions--COIN and nascent peace enforcement. I think the latter is more ascendant, complicated by terrorism (which I find distinct from insurgency),...
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    Civ-Mil Literature

    I think it is important to remember that just five years ago, it was very in vogue to believe that there was a "crisis in civil military relations" and that public, or perhaps even emphatic private,...
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    "The article seems to make sense from the...

    "The article seems to make sense from the security perspective. That is, if your goal is to eliminate AQI and the local Sunnis won't trust the mainly Shia Army, let them form a Sunni militia to do...
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    "Because we live here!"

    This is a surprisingly powerful mantra for the partisan. This echoes the quote attributed to Joan of Arc at her Inquisition, "If God loves or hates the English, I do not know. I only know that they...
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