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The NFB Reading List: Fiasco
Fiasco: The American Military Adventure In Iraq – Tom Ricks (2006) In his most famous work, US journalist Tom Ricks takes a comprehensive, and utterly searing look at nearly every aspect of “Operation Iraqi Freedom”, one of the great military … Continue reading
The RAND COIN Scorecard And The Irish War Of Independence
The RAND think tank, last year, came up with a “scorecard” method of reviewing counter-insurgency campaigns. The scorecard ranks a COIN campaign in terms of “good” and “bad” practices that take place by the actual COIN force and the insurgents … Continue reading
Posted in Afghanistan, Counter Insurgency (COIN), History, Iraq, Ireland, Irish Defence Forces, Politics, War
Tagged Afghanistan, bad factors, coin, counter insurgency, good factors, history, Iraq, ireland, politics, rand, revolutionary period, scorecard, war, war of independence
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Ireland And Iraq: When COIN Works And When It Cant
The Irish Civil War is a conflict that is widely ignored in military circles, outside of the Irish Army, which has always seemed strange to me. The Irish Civil War is that rarest of things: an example of a successful … Continue reading
Posted in Counter Insurgency (COIN), History, Iraq, Ireland, Middle East, Xtranormal Videos
Tagged anti-Treaty, battle, britain, collins, counter-insuyrgency, difficutlies, failures, Iraq, ireland, irish civil war] coin, kilmallock, maliki, media control, pro-Treaty, twitter, war, war of independence
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COIN: Not Dead, Only Sleeping
A lot has been made of the remarks of US Defence Secretary Robert Gates the other day, when he appeared to signal the end of the US’s focus on counter-insurgency and a drawdown on its armed forces. In particular, Gates seemed to draw a … Continue reading
Posted in Afghanistan, Counter Insurgency (COIN), History, Middle East, War
Tagged 2003, Afghanistan, air power, algeria, asia, coin, fallujah, gates, helmand, history, Iraq, land war, speech, us armed forces, vietnam, war
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The Junior Officer’s Reading Club by Patrick Hennessey
One of the core archetypes you will find in military based fiction is that of the British officer: uptight, a strict disciplinarian, moustached, traditional, posh, asshole (especially to rankers). It’s not a completely underserved stereotype and it is far from inaccurate in … Continue reading
Posted in Afghanistan, Books, Counter Insurgency (COIN), Iraq, Middle East, Reviews, War
Tagged Afghanistan, ana, baghdad, books, british army, grenadier guards, helmand, Iraq, memoir, officer, patrick hennessey, reviews, the junior officers reading club, war
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Counter-Insurgency In Cosmo And Transformers
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 … Continue reading
Posted in Counter Insurgency (COIN), Humour, Iraq, War
Tagged coin, cosmocoin, counter insurgency, decepticons, humour, Iraq, war, wings over iraq
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A Response To “Four Days Later”
From Abu Muqawama The man who made this speech had lost his son in Afghanistan four days prior. While that is certainly tragic, and his decision to give the oration regardless should be praised, it does not exempt the content of … Continue reading
Posted in Afghanistan, Counter Insurgency (COIN), Iraq, Middle East, Reviews, War
Tagged abu muqawama, afganistan, al-queda, four days later, general, Iraq, john kelly, life or death struggle, marines, middle east, speech, taliban, threat aggrandizing, usmc
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Bullet Magnet by Mick Flynn
It’s alright. Not the best military memoir I’ve read, but not the worst either. Flynn is one of the most experienced and decorated soldiers in the British Army and this is his story, from start to finish – Northern Ireland, the … Continue reading
Posted in Afghanistan, Counter Insurgency (COIN), History, Iraq, Middle East, Reviews, War
Tagged Afghanistan, bosnia, bullet magnet, decorated, falklands, Iraq, memoir, mick flynn, nco, northern ireland, ranker, review, war
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Changing NATO
NATO is changing and its coming 20 years after it should have happened. Since the fall of communism, NATO has found itself increasingly irrelevant, its role as a self-defence pact seen more as a disadvantage then an advantage. The problems: … Continue reading
Posted in Afghanistan, Counter Insurgency (COIN), History, Iraq, Middle East, Politics, War
Tagged Afghanistan, britain, changes, coin, common, eufor, europe, european defence, france, history, Iraq, kosovo, nato, obama, obsolete, politics, somalia, soviet union, terrorism, war, warsaw pact
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Took Long Enough: Addendum
Ugh. So, under-representation that the British first-past-the-post system would be proud of, walk-outs, repeated votes needed to elect a President…and all in the first three hours. One wonders how this country will ever be able to function at all.
Posted in Iraq, Middle East, Politics
Tagged first session, Iraq, maliki, parliament, talabani
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