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The New (and Old) Classics of Counterinsurgency

Laleh Khalili

Middle East Report 255 (Summer 2010)

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Not entirely. The political requirements of the mission, operation, or campaign may well require that soldiers not use force in cases where they would otherwise be justified in using it under the...

Actually, I don't think Pop-centric COIN is all about "protecting the population" at all.

Pop-centric COIN--done properly--is about seeing the political loyalties of the population as central to...

I can just see how that would go over in a country where most households are armed. :rolleyes:

If southern Afghan Pashtuns universally despised the Taliban, and acquiesced in their activities only...

Let me weigh in on this part, not with any fundamental difference, but perhaps a slightly different weighting:



I think it has to be remembered that the Bush Administration came to office...