{"id":3122,"date":"2009-06-02T15:50:41","date_gmt":"2009-06-02T15:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=3122"},"modified":"2009-06-03T02:55:18","modified_gmt":"2009-06-03T02:55:18","slug":"coin-and-counter-coin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=3122","title":{"rendered":"COIN and Counter-COIN"},"content":{"rendered":"

First, John Robb<\/strong> is en fuego today at Global Guerillas<\/strong>\u00a0in a series<\/a> of provocative<\/a> “standing order”\u00a0 tactical-strategic<\/a>\u00a0posts<\/a> challenging<\/a> COIN theory<\/a>. I strongly advise you to check these out. I may comment on some of these later tonight.<\/p>\n

John has been taking time away to work on unrelated\u00a0business projects and this diversion\u00a0seems to have sparked a burst of creative and innovative thinking in his field of expertise.\u00a0 This is an excellent technique for improving productivity as the mental shifting of gears from tackling new subjects is neuropsychologically stimulating.<\/p>\n

Secondly, there have been a couple of new responses to my earlier “Kilkullen Doctrine<\/a>” post\u00a0to which\u00a0I want to draw your attention:<\/p>\n

Rethinking Security<\/strong> –\u00a0 COIN and Grand Strategy<\/a><\/p>\n

Committee of Public Safety<\/strong> – Hamilton Rolls Forward, Firing His Laser\u00a0Eyes<\/a>\u00a0and Grand Strategy Through the Lens of\u00a0Schizophrenia<\/a><\/p>\n

I had linked to CoPS previously but I think my blog meltdown on Sunday obliterated that particular update.<\/p>\n

UPDATE!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Stephen Pampinella – <\/strong>Critical Strategic Theory as Compliment to the Kilcullen\u00a0Doctrine<\/a><\/p>\n

The identity question may be the key to grand strategy and the meta-vision behind it\u00a0– a la John\u00a0Boyd’s “Theme of Vitality and Growth<\/a>” as well as the reason why the USG, the bipartisan elite, the COINdinistas all shrink from it.\u00a0Grand strategy\u00a0is not merely about externalities, but shaping one’s own. Here America is deeply and bitterly divided.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

First, John Robb is en fuego today at Global Guerillas\u00a0in a series of provocative “standing order”\u00a0 tactical-strategic\u00a0posts challenging COIN theory. I strongly advise you to check these out. I may comment on some of these later tonight. John has been taking time away to work on unrelated\u00a0business projects and this diversion\u00a0seems to have sparked a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[516,20,126,311,17,78,388,199,336,303,268,10,127,530,211,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ae","category-coin","category-counterinsurgency","category-gangs","category-global-guerillas","category-ideas","category-innovation","category-insurgency","category-intellectuals","category-john-robb","category-social-networks","category-state-failure","category-strategy","category-strategy-and-war","category-terrorism","category-theory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}