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Professional counterinsurgency blogging
If you want to hear from some of the smartest men and women on the front lines in Afghanistan and around the globe, visit the official blog of the Army and Marine Corps Counterinsurgency (COIN) Center at Fort Leavenworth in Kansas. The COIN Center also has its own page on Facebook and its own feed on Twitter.
For starters, read this post on the importance of even the lowest-ranking soldiers establishing close personal relationships with the people of Afghanistan. And finally, a hat tip to Small Wars Journal for linking to the COIN Center Blog.
Cross-posted at Conventional Folly
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that was a great read, thanks for the link.
If you check out the comments section, you'll find an interesting comment that finds the new strategy very suspect. It demonstrates the kind of debate that was going on before the surge was implemented and it also shows that the debate is still raging on.