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WAR<\/strong><\/a><\/strong>\u00a0by Sebastian Junger<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\nReceived a courtesy review copy of WAR<\/strong> yesterday from the publisher, due entirely to the kind offices of Kanani<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\nRead the first 50 pages this afternoon and found it it interesting because\u00a0as a book, it exists\u00a0on the opposite end of the spectrum from Mackinlay<\/a><\/strong> and Kilcullen<\/a><\/strong>. Where the former are giving a panoramic or telescopic view of COIN as strategic-operational-grand tactics, the author of WAR<\/strong>, journalist\u00a0Sebastian Junger<\/a>, <\/strong>is using a microscope to show COIN in the Korengal valley<\/a>, Afghanistan<\/strong>\u00a0as seen by an Army platoon, squad and individual soldier. Maybe an electron microscope would be a better analogy. Gritty.<\/p>\nWill write a full review when I am finished. If any active duty or veteran\u00a0readers were in Korengal or\u00a0Afghanistan\u00a0or have read WAR <\/strong>and care to sound off in the comment section, you are\u00a0cordially encouraged to do so.<\/p>\nJunger is also part of the documentary film project<\/a>, RESTREPO,<\/strong> which he personally\u00a0financed.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WAR\u00a0by Sebastian Junger Received a courtesy review copy of WAR yesterday from the publisher, due entirely to the kind offices of Kanani. Read the first 50 pages this afternoon and found it it interesting because\u00a0as a book, it exists\u00a0on the opposite end of the spectrum from Mackinlay and Kilcullen. Where the former are giving a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[527,420,133,20,126,471,483,574,344,521,199,336,125,499,210,39,367,372,502,562,445,312,202,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-authors","category-book","category-coin","category-counterinsurgency","category-cultural-intelligence","category-extremists","category-failed-state","category-gap","category-geography","category-insurgency","category-intellectuals","category-islaminsurgency","category-islamic-world","category-islamist","category-military","category-military-history","category-non-state-actors","category-pakistan","category-perception","category-reading","category-tribes","category-vanity-fair","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3424","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=3424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Received a courtesy review copy of WAR<\/strong> yesterday from the publisher, due entirely to the kind offices of Kanani<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\nRead the first 50 pages this afternoon and found it it interesting because\u00a0as a book, it exists\u00a0on the opposite end of the spectrum from Mackinlay<\/a><\/strong> and Kilcullen<\/a><\/strong>. Where the former are giving a panoramic or telescopic view of COIN as strategic-operational-grand tactics, the author of WAR<\/strong>, journalist\u00a0Sebastian Junger<\/a>, <\/strong>is using a microscope to show COIN in the Korengal valley<\/a>, Afghanistan<\/strong>\u00a0as seen by an Army platoon, squad and individual soldier. Maybe an electron microscope would be a better analogy. Gritty.<\/p>\nWill write a full review when I am finished. If any active duty or veteran\u00a0readers were in Korengal or\u00a0Afghanistan\u00a0or have read WAR <\/strong>and care to sound off in the comment section, you are\u00a0cordially encouraged to do so.<\/p>\nJunger is also part of the documentary film project<\/a>, RESTREPO,<\/strong> which he personally\u00a0financed.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WAR\u00a0by Sebastian Junger Received a courtesy review copy of WAR yesterday from the publisher, due entirely to the kind offices of Kanani. Read the first 50 pages this afternoon and found it it interesting because\u00a0as a book, it exists\u00a0on the opposite end of the spectrum from Mackinlay and Kilcullen. Where the former are giving a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[527,420,133,20,126,471,483,574,344,521,199,336,125,499,210,39,367,372,502,562,445,312,202,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-authors","category-book","category-coin","category-counterinsurgency","category-cultural-intelligence","category-extremists","category-failed-state","category-gap","category-geography","category-insurgency","category-intellectuals","category-islaminsurgency","category-islamic-world","category-islamist","category-military","category-military-history","category-non-state-actors","category-pakistan","category-perception","category-reading","category-tribes","category-vanity-fair","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3424","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=3424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Read the first 50 pages this afternoon and found it it interesting because\u00a0as a book, it exists\u00a0on the opposite end of the spectrum from Mackinlay<\/a><\/strong> and Kilcullen<\/a><\/strong>. Where the former are giving a panoramic or telescopic view of COIN as strategic-operational-grand tactics, the author of WAR<\/strong>, journalist\u00a0Sebastian Junger<\/a>, <\/strong>is using a microscope to show COIN in the Korengal valley<\/a>, Afghanistan<\/strong>\u00a0as seen by an Army platoon, squad and individual soldier. Maybe an electron microscope would be a better analogy. Gritty.<\/p>\nWill write a full review when I am finished. If any active duty or veteran\u00a0readers were in Korengal or\u00a0Afghanistan\u00a0or have read WAR <\/strong>and care to sound off in the comment section, you are\u00a0cordially encouraged to do so.<\/p>\nJunger is also part of the documentary film project<\/a>, RESTREPO,<\/strong> which he personally\u00a0financed.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WAR\u00a0by Sebastian Junger Received a courtesy review copy of WAR yesterday from the publisher, due entirely to the kind offices of Kanani. Read the first 50 pages this afternoon and found it it interesting because\u00a0as a book, it exists\u00a0on the opposite end of the spectrum from Mackinlay and Kilcullen. Where the former are giving a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[527,420,133,20,126,471,483,574,344,521,199,336,125,499,210,39,367,372,502,562,445,312,202,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-authors","category-book","category-coin","category-counterinsurgency","category-cultural-intelligence","category-extremists","category-failed-state","category-gap","category-geography","category-insurgency","category-intellectuals","category-islaminsurgency","category-islamic-world","category-islamist","category-military","category-military-history","category-non-state-actors","category-pakistan","category-perception","category-reading","category-tribes","category-vanity-fair","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3424","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=3424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Will write a full review when I am finished. If any active duty or veteran\u00a0readers were in Korengal or\u00a0Afghanistan\u00a0or have read WAR <\/strong>and care to sound off in the comment section, you are\u00a0cordially encouraged to do so.<\/p>\nJunger is also part of the documentary film project<\/a>, RESTREPO,<\/strong> which he personally\u00a0financed.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WAR\u00a0by Sebastian Junger Received a courtesy review copy of WAR yesterday from the publisher, due entirely to the kind offices of Kanani. Read the first 50 pages this afternoon and found it it interesting because\u00a0as a book, it exists\u00a0on the opposite end of the spectrum from Mackinlay and Kilcullen. Where the former are giving a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[527,420,133,20,126,471,483,574,344,521,199,336,125,499,210,39,367,372,502,562,445,312,202,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-authors","category-book","category-coin","category-counterinsurgency","category-cultural-intelligence","category-extremists","category-failed-state","category-gap","category-geography","category-insurgency","category-intellectuals","category-islaminsurgency","category-islamic-world","category-islamist","category-military","category-military-history","category-non-state-actors","category-pakistan","category-perception","category-reading","category-tribes","category-vanity-fair","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3424","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=3424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Junger is also part of the documentary film project<\/a>, RESTREPO,<\/strong> which he personally\u00a0financed.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WAR\u00a0by Sebastian Junger Received a courtesy review copy of WAR yesterday from the publisher, due entirely to the kind offices of Kanani. Read the first 50 pages this afternoon and found it it interesting because\u00a0as a book, it exists\u00a0on the opposite end of the spectrum from Mackinlay and Kilcullen. Where the former are giving a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[527,420,133,20,126,471,483,574,344,521,199,336,125,499,210,39,367,372,502,562,445,312,202,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-authors","category-book","category-coin","category-counterinsurgency","category-cultural-intelligence","category-extremists","category-failed-state","category-gap","category-geography","category-insurgency","category-intellectuals","category-islaminsurgency","category-islamic-world","category-islamist","category-military","category-military-history","category-non-state-actors","category-pakistan","category-perception","category-reading","category-tribes","category-vanity-fair","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3424","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=3424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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WAR\u00a0by Sebastian Junger Received a courtesy review copy of WAR yesterday from the publisher, due entirely to the kind offices of Kanani. Read the first 50 pages this afternoon and found it it interesting because\u00a0as a book, it exists\u00a0on the opposite end of the spectrum from Mackinlay and Kilcullen. Where the former are giving a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[527,420,133,20,126,471,483,574,344,521,199,336,125,499,210,39,367,372,502,562,445,312,202,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-authors","category-book","category-coin","category-counterinsurgency","category-cultural-intelligence","category-extremists","category-failed-state","category-gap","category-geography","category-insurgency","category-intellectuals","category-islaminsurgency","category-islamic-world","category-islamist","category-military","category-military-history","category-non-state-actors","category-pakistan","category-perception","category-reading","category-tribes","category-vanity-fair","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3424","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=3424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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