This is awesome and everyone should read it. A bunch of military figures envision what a Counter-Insurgency themed issue of Cosmopolitan magazine would look like.
And from there, I found this hidden gem from Wings Over Iraq, something I had unforgivably missed from my one of my favourite blogs. The author attempts to explain Counter-Insurgency and its deficiencies through a simulated US-Decepticon War in Iraq.
Never Felt Better 