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Originally Posted by Richard
[COLOR="orange"]"We are not likely to have as our next fight a counterinsurgency," he said. While America has been teaching its troops Arabic and other regional languages, training them how to win friends and influence people at the village and provincial levels, "the world has changed," Winnefeld said.
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Thank John Nagl and David Patraeus and guys like him for causing this belief. COIN is how the whole government approaches the problem. Generally, the military applications of COIN are CG Operations. I taught as a COIN instructor at the Combat Advisor course (where Nagl came from) for a year after retirement. They teach d i M e
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