Thoughts from the Field on Kilcullen's 28 Articles (Pt. I)
Part I from your fellow Council members on the SWJ Blog - Thoughts from the Field on Kilcullen's 28 Articles, compiled by LTC Thomas P. Odom (US Army, Ret.).
I'll be posting the remainder of the series over the next several days. As always, posting comments on the actual blog site are 'more than welcomed'...Within this context, what follows are observations from collective experience: the distilled essence of what those who went before learned. They are expressed as commandments, for clarity, but are really more like folklore. Apply them judiciously and skeptically.
David Kilcullen intended his Twenty-Eight Articles, Fundamentals of Company-level Counterinsurgency as a guide for the company commander facing a COIN operation. Since the article first circulated, hundreds of officers have served as company commanders and in other positions in Iraq and Afghanistan. In this article some of those officers comment on how Kilcullen's thinking applied to their mission in theater. Other former or retired Soldiers measure Kilcullen's points against their own experiences in other countries, conflicts, and years. All -- including David Kilcullen -- are members of the community of interest at the Small Wars Journal and Council...
Originally Posted by RTK
Bookmarks