Originally Posted by
Rob Thornton
Dave,
COL John Agoglia (formerly the director out at PKSOI at Carlisle) is now heading up the Coin Academy in Afghanistan. He came by and saw the folks and centers located at Leavenworth recently. He'd mentioned one of his big challenges was getting the enough of the right kinds of people to where they could be of use to the Academy's mission. Unfortunately, that is also everyone's challenge.
Niel and the USA/USMC COIN Center are doing their best to facilitate a multi-way COIN knowledge flow, but the COIN Center is also carrying a heavy burden on a short number of very talented folks. Others, ourselves included, are also trying to help directly, or with related issues.
SWC has a unique population, with a number of skill sets, and back grounds. It could serve as a virtual reachback for unclassified issues - or for those with SIPR access we might be able to create smaller, ad hoc work groups for sensitive projects. Part of the problem with any ad hoc effort is identifying who knows what, how they can best be leveraged, and how to communicate from disparate locations.
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