Suggestions for Small Wars Essay Contest?

[Cavguy]

Some starters: (some are interrelated)

1) Effective employment of Combat Outposts - when and where? When to handover? When to abandon?
2) Carrot and the Stick - how and when to use it?
3) Counterinsurgency strategies among "unwinnable" populations (i.e. hardcore against)
4) Full Spectrum Counterinsurgency (term from Kilcullen), how to get there?
5) Officer/NCO/Enlisted educational preparation for the "full spectrum" battlefield. What should it look like?
6) Working by/with/through - how can conventional forces empower host nation forces and governance?
7) Effective use of Human Terrain Analysis to achieve effects
8) Tactical Unit organization for COIN (dovetail role/mission of squad thread)
9) Effective intelligence operations at the company level