Inspiration needed - SWJ town square scene

[William F. Owen]

(and will most likely remain so until Wilf can impose his war dictatorship that only allows major state-on-state refereed events....).

Actually the opposite. I'm a Small Wars guy!
Big Wars are extremely scary and dangerous and require actual expertise. You have to be able to command, do logistics and move large numbers of men.

Small Wars has none of that, and they are rarely strategically decisive. I'd rather be crushing rebellions than fighting for anything that actually mattered, against anyone who was actually any good!

[Backwards Observer]

Rambo: First Blood Part II - The Musical (You Not Expendable)

You Not Expendable (Youtube Link)

(Hat Tip - Dangerous Minds)

[sabers8th]

Rand Held its COIN Symposium in 1962 could do a round table with Stephen Hosmer facilitating these honorable gentlemen:

Charles T.R. Bohannan, Lieutenant Colonel, AUS-Ret.
Wendell W. Fertig, Colonel, USA-Ret.
David Galula, Lieutenant Colonel (French Marine Corps)
Anthony S. Jeapes, Captain (British Army)
Frank E. Kitson, MBE, MC, Lieutenant Colonel (British Army)
Edward Geary Lansdale, Brigadier General, USAF
Rufus C. Phillips, III
David Leonard Powell-Jones, DSO, OBEY Brigadier General
(British Army)
John R. Shirley, OBE, Colonel (British Army-Ret.)
Napoleon D. Valeriano, Colonel (formerly with the Armed Forces
of the Philippines)
John F. White, Colonel (Royal Australian Army)
Samuel V. Wilson, Lieutenant Colonel, USA

[Corto]

Rand Held its COIN Symposium in 1962 could do a round table with Stephen Hosmer facilitating these honorable gentlemen: ...

They skipped Sir Robert Thompson!

[MikeF]

They skipped Sir Robert Thompson!

I think he was deployed to Vietnam during the symposium.

[MikeF]

Rand Held its COIN Symposium in 1962 could do a round table with Stephen Hosmer facilitating these honorable gentlemen:

Charles T.R. Bohannan, Lieutenant Colonel, AUS-Ret.
Wendell W. Fertig, Colonel, USA-Ret.
David Galula, Lieutenant Colonel (French Marine Corps)
Anthony S. Jeapes, Captain (British Army)
Frank E. Kitson, MBE, MC, Lieutenant Colonel (British Army)
Edward Geary Lansdale, Brigadier General, USAF
Rufus C. Phillips, III
David Leonard Powell-Jones, DSO, OBEY Brigadier General
(British Army)
John R. Shirley, OBE, Colonel (British Army-Ret.)
Napoleon D. Valeriano, Colonel (formerly with the Armed Forces
of the Philippines)
John F. White, Colonel (Royal Australian Army)
Samuel V. Wilson, Lieutenant Colonel, USA

Here's the link to the document. The file is rather large, but well worth the read for anyone that wants to be a serious practisioner. As with all Rand products, make sure you click the free download button and not the "pay to play" button.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/reports/R412-1/

[Cold Sea]

Here's the link to the document. The file is rather large, but well worth the read for anyone that wants to be a serious practisioner. As with all Rand products, make sure you click the free download button and not the "pay to play" button.

Thanks for that link! That's one hell of a meeting of minds...

[MikeF]

Thanks for that link! That's one hell of a meeting of minds...

I just wished that we had transcripts of the private conversations that they had at night at the bars.

[OfTheTroops]

Nicotine
Caffeine
Alcohol

Burlap sacks

Sir Robert Peele

Aldo the Apache

Custer

That damned link/ circle powerpoint descibing COIN

Doctrinal terms on an airport display which change arbitrarily