Quote Originally Posted by Bob's World View Post
This thread is about applying a logical methodology to get at the most important things that one must get at in order to prevail in an insurgency.
Ends, Ways, Means?
The fact that that is also "COG analysis" and that it differs from what the books say I am supposed to think and do, is just something that the COG Nazis will have to live with.
I can call a horse a pig, but it is still a horse.
So you'll say "Shock" when what you are actually describing is "Surprise."
Sorry, but this is why modern Concepts and Doctrine can be so poor.
Use the words as they are used in English. There is 1 definition of a COG. It is well described. It is useful to those of us who understand it.

Based on the commonly used definition, the Population is not a COG. You are just arbitrarily assigning the word, based on your wish to use it. Do you mean that "securing the population is the objective?"