Counter-Insurgency Manual. I have offered to debate sevral people posting on The Ireaq War and Terrorsim forum categories, but have not received a good,throrough debate.
I study more by arguing. Possible stances could be:
COIN is inadequate for effective Couter-Insurgency.
Coin covers everything the Army or State department needs to handle a counter-insurgency.
COIN needs to be tweaked in the following ways:
COIN IS UNFAIR TO HOST GOVERMENTS BECAUSE:
COIN could be modified to better engender respect and reduce resentment in tension between oposing groups by:
Here is a link to a PDF copy of Gen Patraeus manual:
http://www.fas.org/irp/doddir/army/fm3-24fd.pdf
I bought a copy off Amazon for $12.00 or so.
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