{"id":3129,"date":"2009-06-12T04:18:42","date_gmt":"2009-06-12T04:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=3129"},"modified":"2009-06-12T04:18:42","modified_gmt":"2009-06-12T04:18:42","slug":"brief-wsj-interview-with-gen-mcchrystal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=3129","title":{"rendered":"Brief WSJ interview with Gen. McChrystal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nothing mind blowing here but the new Afghan commander <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB124475733323507789.html#mod=article-outset-box\">offers this bit on the congruence between counterterrorism and COIN<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Counterterrorism, effective counterterrorism, is about networking. It&#8217;s about building a really effective network so you can gather information and then you can act on it rapidly and precisely. Counterinsurgency still requires the ability to build a network, gather information, understand what you&#8217;re trying to do&#8230;<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nothing mind blowing here but the new Afghan commander offers this bit on the congruence between counterterrorism and COIN: Counterterrorism, effective counterterrorism, is about networking. It&#8217;s about building a really effective network so you can gather information and then you can act on it rapidly and precisely. Counterinsurgency still requires the ability to build a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[527,350,20,126,39,14,268,127,211,18,217],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-army","category-coin","category-counterinsurgency","category-military","category-networks","category-social-networks","category-strategy","category-terrorism","category-war","category-warriors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3129","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=3129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}