Quote Originally Posted by Valin View Post
For over a decade, Russia has struggled with persistent domestic insurgency and terrorism...
Over a decade? I'd have said for several centuries... Russia's Chechen problem goes back a fair way.

If "COIN literature" is ever established as a genre, Leo Tolstoy's short novel The Raid - an account of a raid on a Chechen village, based on experiences during his service in the Czar's army - will be a genre classic!