{"id":3733,"date":"2011-02-10T05:05:46","date_gmt":"2011-02-10T05:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=3733"},"modified":"2011-02-10T05:06:26","modified_gmt":"2011-02-10T05:06:26","slug":"is-coin-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=3733","title":{"rendered":"Is COIN Dead?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/slide1.JPG\" title=\"slide1.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/slide1.JPG\" alt=\"slide1.JPG\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By that, I mean contemporary, mid-2000&#8217;s\u00a0&#8220;pop-centric&#8221; COIN theory as expressed in <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/usacac.army.mil\/cac2\/coin\/repository\/FM_3-24.pdf\"><strong>FM 3-24<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0<\/a>&#8211; is it de facto dead as USG policy or is COIN theory formally evolved\u00a0to officially embrace strong elements of CT, targeted assassinations, FID, &#8220;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/globalguerrillas.typepad.com\/globalguerrillas\/2008\/02\/open-source-cou.html\">open-source counterinsurgency<\/a>&#8221; and even bare-knuckled conventional warfare tactics?<\/p>\n<p>Mind you, I have nothing against pragmatic flexibility and think that, for example,\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/6295e620-32e7-11e0-9a61-00144feabdc0.html\">moves to arm more\u00a0Afghan villagers for self-defense <\/a>are realistic efforts to deal with the Taliban insurgency,\u00a0and I prefer\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/smallwarsjournal.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/mexico-angry-at-us-officials-i\/\">USG officials speaking frankly about military conditions<\/a>\u00a0as they actually exist. Doctrinal concepts\u00a0should not be used to create a\u00a0&#8220;paint-by-numbers&#8221; military strategy &#8211; it is a starting point that should be expected to evolve to fit conditions.<\/p>\n<p>But having\u00a0evolved operations and policy as far as the USG military and USG national security agencies have, with <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=3315\">the current draconian budgetary restraints looming<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; are we still &#8220;doing COIN&#8221;? Or is it dead?<\/p>\n<p>Thoughts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By that, I mean contemporary, mid-2000&#8217;s\u00a0&#8220;pop-centric&#8221; COIN theory as expressed in FM 3-24\u00a0\u00a0&#8211; is it de facto dead as USG policy or is COIN theory formally evolved\u00a0to officially embrace strong elements of CT, targeted assassinations, FID, &#8220;open-source counterinsurgency&#8221; and even bare-knuckled conventional warfare tactics? Mind you, I have nothing against pragmatic flexibility and think that, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[527,46,20,126,304,586,574,87,425,78,199,573,39,340,270,522,558,127,530,161,13,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-analytic","category-coin","category-counterinsurgency","category-defense","category-dime","category-failed-state","category-foreign-policy","category-government","category-ideas","category-insurgency","category-mexico","category-military","category-military-reform","category-national-security","category-questions","category-social-science","category-strategy","category-strategy-and-war","category-swj-blog","category-theory","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3733","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=3733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}