I also found that funny-ironic that AntiWar.com was wading into that side the pool, along with the perception that the Army is marching together under a "Somos COINdinistas" banner with COL Gentile as the lone, John the Baptist-esque voice in the wilderness.
Am I missing something or just confused about the part of the argument charging that COIN proponents want to go around the world nation-building, a la Thomas PM Barnett's expeditionary "leviathan"? Isn't the basic argument of Drs. Nagl/Kilcullen that doing so isn't the business we should want to be in, but that since we're in a COIN fight on two fronts we should focus on getting it right? I don't think I've read anything by either of those men saying otherwise, but I'm interested to know if there is something out there along those line that I hadn't seen or heard.
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