This is a guest post by Jacqueline L. Hazelton. Dr. Hazelton is an assistant professor in the Department of Strategy and Policy at the Naval War College. I asked her to write a brief piece about her new Foreign Affairs essay for the Duck of...
counter-insurgency
On this week's episode of Foreign Entanglements, Pete Mansoor and I talk Hybrid Warfare: Haven't had a chance to write a review of the book, but it's quite good; highly.
I've been frustrated by the discussion over counter-insurgency for quite some time. This week, I took those frustrations out on my WPR column: Of course, abandoning COIN doctrine would not.
I observe with some degree of pride that Captain Andrew Betson, a student of mine at the Patterson School, has an article in the latest Armed Forces Journal. The article began life as a seminar paper in last spring's Counter-Insurgency course. It's excellent work; check...
So, apparently Great Satan's Girlfriend isn't exactly a hot COIN-nerd chick who wants to talk war and show you nifty pictures of herself in a bikini. As Spencer points out: "Courtney.
My latest at WPR is about airpower, "savage war," and inter-service conflict: Nevertheless, assessments of the utility of airpower in counterinsurgency efforts have always been bound up in debates over.
Sadie Jones' Small Wars is a novel about British efforts to put down the Greek Cypriot insurgency in the mid-1950s. Jones concentrates on the Treherne family, including Hal, a British military officer, his wife Claire, and their two children. It's not quite right to say...
Lionel Beehner and Niels Smith duel on reasons for the defeat of the Tamil Tigers. Beehner: It was brute military force, not political dialogue or population control, which ended its.
Spencer, noting the recent research indicating that civilian deaths in Afghanistan generate hostility towards the United States: Additionally, some in the military consider a preoccupation with civilian casualties to be.
Yglesias misleads: It's a little pat to just say that things like the bus incident are unavoidable in a war zone -- even "unavoidable" incidents can occur with frequency -- but the Wikileaks video and the arrival of "collateral damage" on the streets of Washington,...
Yglesias is more impressed than I by Pat Lang's discussion of successful and failed counter-insurgency campaigns. In particular, I think he misconstrues the objectives of many of the major counter-insurgency.
Some interesting bits in this Telegraph report from last week:Top British commanders angrily described in the documents how they were not even told, let alone consulted, about major changes to.