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I'll have a longer post when I get the chance about how students and practitioners of counter-insurgency operations and strategy need to constantly question and test our assumptions about the state of the art lest we fall prey to treating COIN like some unfalsifiable ideology like Marxism rather than as an operational choice in need of constant refinement and study. Until, then, though, check out this summary report from a conference held in the UK a few months back (at which I presented an early draft of "Leverage"). There is some great stuff in here about the actual effectiveness of some of the non-kinetic lines of operation in COIN (that we tend to blindly assume are good things but in cases do nothing and in others make the problem worse). Kudos to Andrew Wilder, Edwina Thompson and Robert Grant for putting this together.
On the other hand, who can we send in to make sure Adm. Olson walks the line? Malcolm Tucker, perhaps? (NSFW)
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It should be clear that
It should be clear that giving people money to bribe their young men to behave is a lost cause. Whether in Helmand or South Central LA welfare doesn't stop insurgency or crime. In fact the free cash enables more violence. If a Crip's welfare payments go up does anyone expect him to leave the gang? The extra cash buys more drugs, booze and ammo doesn't it? Why would an Afghan who plants IEDs at night for money stop when given a temporary 8-5 unskilled labor job with a development firm? The economically sensible thing is to do both. The even more sensible thing for an insurgent is to arrange to get paid for the development job and not show up or better yet tax the entire project 10%.
Since the amount of political violence in Afghanistan has matched increases in development dollars it's not only not clear that more free cash is the answer to insurgency it might actually act be the fuel for the war.
Re Twitter - on agreeing
Re Twitter - on agreeing with Mr UN about drone strikes: I'm glad we have someone in DC willing to take grief for unpopular stands. Really. However depending on what you agree with - you didn't twit* it - you seem to dwell in the realm of legalistic madness. We can't kill the enemy on sight because we are prosecuting them for violating the laws of war (by sorta civilian court) by committing murder out of uniform (if I get you wrong - clarify - it's not specific). OK so if they had donned some garb - say black pajama pants under their suits - and committed 9/11 in some type of uniform, they wouldn't be murderers? Or they would be subject to the Laws of War for murdering civilians under color of war hence military tribunals?
The mistake of course was bringing civilian law into it at all - a Bush mistake. I've been consistent on this all along. Label me Hobgoblin if ye must.
Colin S Gray - Another Bloody Century - makes the point that warfare waged to observe cultural norms about the conduct of war would be absurdity. Wars are fought for policy reasons.
(He believes in Clausewitz, Sun-Tzu and Thucydides. Me too, and you too when you're not in the legalistic trance).
Now back to Absurdistan - my natural haunts. Can't wait for the next Ninja/Pirate smackdown. We've finally figured out how to defeat you black robed monastic sissies.
We're going to bring civilian lawyers. As paralyzing as your puffer fish dipped throwing stars.
Be warned - as you lay there helpless we shall subject you to the ultimate indignity - we shall unmask you before the audience on Glenn Beck.
It's the same episode he's scheduled to fall off the wagon. (take heart, he will).
*[I shall not bow to this twit-nology]
Oh, come on, now, it's not
Oh, come on, now, it's not like the Admiral called an ongoing COIN operation a "bleeding ulcer" or some such crazy thing.
Oh.
come on, you should keep you
come on, you should keep you faith!
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