Comments on: New Interagency COIN Manual http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/new_interagency_coin_manual_/ Online Journal of Politics and Foreign Affairs Wed, 25 Nov 2009 02:12:14 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: legion http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/new_interagency_coin_manual_/comment-page-1/#comment-155811 legion Fri, 14 Sep 2007 16:07:47 +0000 http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/2007/09/new_interagency_coin_manual_/#comment-155811 I'm deeply curious about how this new COIN manual tracks with the one the Army came out with not so long ago, to great fanfare - to include putting the author, <strong>LTC Nagl</strong>, on the freaking Daily Show. <blockquote>mentor indigenous security forces in Iraq and Afghanistan because the service says it is already providing those same capabilities.</blockquote> Yeah, you mean the Iraqi security forces we just got recommendations to completely dissolve & rebuild from scratch because they're so useless? Or the ones in Afghanistan, which just became the largest supplier of opium in the world? "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means." I'm deeply curious about how this new COIN manual tracks with the one the Army came out with not so long ago, to great fanfare - to include putting the author, LTC Nagl, on the freaking Daily Show.

mentor indigenous security forces in Iraq and Afghanistan because the service says it is already providing those same capabilities.

Yeah, you mean the Iraqi security forces we just got recommendations to completely dissolve & rebuild from scratch because they're so useless? Or the ones in Afghanistan, which just became the largest supplier of opium in the world?

"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

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