U.S. Marine Sgt. Chris Gonzalez speaks with a member of the Afghan police at the Kajaki Sofla Bazaar in Helmand province, Afghanistan, Nov. 5, 2011. Gonzalez is the civil affairs team chief assigned to Company B, 1st Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment. U.S. Marines assigned to the 1st Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment joined Afghan police in celebrating the Islamic holiday of Eid al-Adha, which encourages both reconciliation and charitable giving. U.S. Marince Corps photo by Cpl. James Clark
U.S. Military To Scrap COIN; Focus On Pacific, Says Vice Chairman -- Aol Defense
Omaha: The United States, which rushed to replace and rebuild its ability to wage counter insurgency warfare over the last decade, must plan for a new future in the Pacific and leave COIN behind.
That was the bold message of Adm. James "Sandy" Winnefeld speaking here at the Strategic Command Cyber and Space conference.
"We are not likely to have as our next fight a counterinsurgency," he said. While America has been teaching its troops Arabic and other regional languages, training them how to win friends and influence people at the village and provincial levels, "the world has changed," Winnefeld said. America's enemies and competitors are "coming up with new asymmetric advantages. They've been studying us closely...," he said. So, "we need to avoid the temptation to look in our rear view mirror."
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