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Originally Posted by Inflexible Six
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Originally Posted by Scimitar
It feels like their mixing up FID with COIN and strategic with tactical?
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Originally Posted by 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.
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MOO, in addition to the mixing of definitions, a concept missing from the discussion is grand strategy.
IMO, the conversation demonstrates that although there's a huge difference between critical historical analysis and contemporaneous second-guessing, that line is easily crossed.