IN THE NEWS
As the preceding post shows, I've been chopping through the intellectual ice, working on more of the "official" posts, in spite of distractions from the holidays, work, and other sources. That last post about counterinsurgency was tough to write, so I hope it's not equally tough to read. At least you can settle down for a long winter's nap with it.
There's another "Counterinsurgency is hard" post in the works. Next time, it's all about how militaries, the American one included, aren't normally organized around the requirements of counterinsurgency warfare. It's a bit of the untold story about counterinsurgency, something that's now as important an issue as it was in the 1960s and the 1980s. Americans keep re-discovering insurgency and counterinsurgency (and sometimes the same authors on the topic, such as T.E. Lawrence and David Galula) whenever a particular guerrilla war bubbles up from the policy deeps to burst into the public consciousness. Unfortunately, translating doctrine into practice means changing the way military and civilian bureaucracies work--not always the prettiest thing to watch.
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