What Have You Done to Provide Security Today?
BY Herschel Smith
17 years, 11 months ago
In General David Petraeus: Softly, Softly?, I argued, as I have previously, that the Iraq model for counterinsurgency is backwards. The customary understanding of Galula’s COIN doctrine has the insurgent attempting to win the population, with the government forces attempting to hold them in submission. The Iraq model has this turned entirely on its head. The insurgents are holding the population in submission while we are attempting to win them, with insurgent terror proving to be more compelling than our so-called “nonkinetic
On January 29, 2007 at 3:06 am, Mike@CopTheTruth said:
A friend of mine (my former BC) from the Ranger Bn. used to be Petraeus’ CO in the 509th Airborne in Italy. I spoke to him recently and he says that Petraeus is top-notch and the right guy to get the job done. Let’s hope he’s right.