Watching the IDF (catch all)

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There is some common misconceptions at play here. British COIN, prior to Ulster,

British COIN/Roman COIN aren't my terms but I believe that they are metaphorical for Humane/brutal. I probably should have put them in quotation marks. i.e. The British used "Roman" techniques before adopting "British" techniques.

and some of the COIN practices in Iraq and Afghanistan are nothing to be too proud of.

I've been thinking about starting a thread on that but fear of "the graveyard of the banned" has prevented me from doing so.

Good luck finding a US politician who will express any real and meaningful opposition to that aid and the known chicanery that goes along with it. Either party...

That's my point. If the powers that be are happy, it's meeting objectives. Of course, you can create a lot of destruction and mess up a lot of things while achieving objectives, but then the problem isn't the strategy or the tactics, it's the objectives. I'm not going to debate the objectives.