A More Lethal COIN Strategy in Afghanistan

U.S. Army Pfc. Eric Guzman provides security alongside Afghan Border Police officers while patrolling a village in Afghanistan's Khowst ...

Is Counterinsurgency Working In Afghanistan?

American forces fired 105-millimeter artillery toward an insurgent rocket position near the Pakistan border after being attacked on the 10th...

Is U.S. Counter-Insurgency Era At An End?

This Week At War: End Of The COIN Era? -- Robert Haddick, Foreign Policy Obama's Afghan withdrawal speech may mark the end of the U.S. c...

COIN As A Minority View In The Military

From The Best Defense/Foreign Policy: For those who worry that the whole U.S. Army has gone overboard about counterinsurgency, here's an...

The Evolution Of Counter Insurgency Theory

Photo from Directorate of Intelligence. RTAF HQ The Birth of Modern Counterinsurgency -- Ann Marlowe, World Affairs At the time of the U.S. ...

Was It The The Nazis Who Taught The Soviets All That There Is To Know About Counter Insurgency?

Soviet tanks in Budapest, Hungary in 1956. Radio Free Europe broadcasts encouraged the Hungarians to battle on in the false understanding th...

History Lessons And Counterinsurgency

Marine Capt. Mark Trouerbach, left, and United States Army soldiers heard insurgents’ fire in Nuristan Province on Oct. 24. Tyler Hicks/The ...

Lessons from Sri Lanka: Brutality Can Help Win Small Wars

Sri Lankan military checkpoint Deshakalyan Chowdhury/AFP-Getty Images From War Is Boring: Sri Lanka’s victorious offensive against the rebe...

COIN Air Wing Looks Likely

The Super Tuc is a popular COIN platform in several South American countries. Photo Army Rumor Service From DoD BUzz: Michael Vickers provid...

How We Are Being Out Maneuvered By Our Enemies

PACIFIC OCEAN (March 29, 2008) The guided-missile cruiser USS Shiloh (CG 67), front, the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63), the nuclea...