Don't know how many posters here watch HBO's Baltimore drug-trafficking drama "The Wire," but the show depicts many of the basic principles of COIN in action on America's streets. The necessity of good human intelligence and community policing (boots on the ground) slowly becomes clear, as does the importance and difficulty of getting at the infrastructure behind the foot soldiers on the ground. The police equivalent of "cordon and sweep" is shown to be a dead-end, as even one officer quietly notes. What really sold me on the connection was a "power of the weak" moment an episode or two into the first season, when three policemen head into the slums to rough up dealers and scare up some information, and end up being bombarded with bottles and having their squad car burned down to its frame. I'm guessing this is all unintentional, and merely reflects the show's creator's experiences as a police reporter for the Baltimore Sun, giving further credence to the link between law enforcement and COIN/anti-terrorism. Any other fans of "The Wire" notice the show's relevance to small wars?