[bailaviborita]

I would agree that they are confusing COIN with other things- much like the writers of the FM-3-24 rewrite are as well. Why in the world we can't write a general COIN manual and/or prioritize US interests while we assist another nation in their COIN- from large-scale, industrial COIN all the way to light footprint, SOF-only options- is beyond me. Everyone seems to think there is only one way to do COIN and that is expensive, time-consuming, society-changing, etc.- COIN. I call that nation-building.

COIN is not dead- unless SOF refuses to take the lead on future opportunities to reach political objectives through the use of limited COIN efforts- i.e.- SOF-led or SOF unilateral. One team in a country can do COIN- and they don't have to build a Jeffersonian Democracy or give out millions of dollars in aid while doing so...