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Originally Posted by MtnGoat
Counterinsurgency (COIN) or Unconventional Warfare (UW) or Guerrilla Warfare (GW) or Irregular Warfare (IR)
The Long and Intimate relationship that Special Forces has with all of these began in a military conflict waged by American troops; in a local and typically against people they knew very little about.
Politics and society look at the affects of Counterinsurgency in terms of ethnic or sectarian divisions or violence. So are we look at a political compromise rather than seeking a total military victory characterized by several successful strategies? Or WHAT??
I bring this up becuase of the statements made by GEN Fuller.
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Makes a lot of sense to me,MG............. 
Big Teddy 
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I believe that SF is a 'calling' - not too different from the calling missionaries I know received. I knew instantly that it was for me, and that I would do all I could to achieve it. Most others I know in SF experienced something similar. If, as you say, you HAVE searched and read, and you do not KNOW if this is the path for you --- it is not....
Zonie Diver
SF is a calling and it requires commitment and dedication that the uninitiated will never understand......
Jack Moroney
SFA M-2527, Chapter XXXVII
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