COIN Sources

[NousDefionsDoc]

Principles, Imperatives, and Paradoxes of Counterinsurgency by Eliot Cohen, Lieutenant Colonel Conrad Crane, Lieutenant Colonel John Horvath, and Lieutenant Colonel John Nagl in the March - April issue of Military Review (http://www.smallwarsjournal.com/documents/milreviewmarch5.pdf)
Good link from SWJ.

[NousDefionsDoc]

Strategic Aspects of COIN (http://www.smallwarsjournal.com/documents/milreviewmarch4.pdf)

Another from SWJ.

[NousDefionsDoc]

Aussie Col's 28 Articles (http://turcopolier.typepad.com/sic_semper_tyrannis/files/twentyeight_articles_edition_1.pdf)

[NousDefionsDoc]

Training Idigenous Forces in COIN (http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pdffiles/PUB648.pdf)

[NousDefionsDoc]

Brit Brigadier's (Armour) Criticism of US Army on COIN (http://usacac.leavenworth.army.mil/CAC/milreview/download/English/NovDec05/aylwin.pdf#search='Iraqi%20Counter%20insurgency%20 %20%28COIN%29%20Leadership%20Course')

[NousDefionsDoc]

Beckett's Insurgency In Iraq: A Historical Perspective (http://www.smallwarsjournal.com/documents/beckett.pdf)

[NousDefionsDoc]

Joes - Recapturing the Essentials of Counterinsurgency (http://www.fpri.org/enotes/20060530.military.joes.counterinsurgency.html)

[NousDefionsDoc]

1962 RAND COIN Study Group (http://www.rand.org/pubs/reports/2006/R412-1.pdf)

This is a good one.

[Tom Odom]

This came out yesterday on SWJ. Here is the table of contents:
Guerrillas From the Mist: A Defense Attaché Watches the Rwandan Patriotic Front Transform from Insurgent to Counter Insurgent by LTC Thomas P. Odom, US Army (ret.)

Lessons from Iraq; Invasion and Occupation by Maj M W Shervington, British Army

Mao in Mufti?: Insurgency Theory and the Islamic World by Dr. John W. Jandora

Cops, Spies, and Commandos: The Legal Quagmire that is the Global War on Terror by Capt Matthew Collins, USMC

The Cost of Expediency in Counterinsurgency Operations by MAJ John C. Davis, US Army

Meeting the Irregular Warfare Challenge: Developing an Interdisciplinary Approach to Asymmetrical Warfare by LTC Patrick James Christian, US Army

Counterinsurgency: “A Realistic Appreciation” by Capt Robert B. Asprey, USMC - reprinted from Marine Corps Gazette January, 1963

Go to: http://www.smallwarsjournal.com/swjmag_current.htm



Best All,

Tom

[NousDefionsDoc]

Thanks Tom,
SWJ is a great resource, their library is outstanding. I highly recommend the site to anyone interested in the subject.

[DDilegge]

Thanks Tom,
SWJ is a great resource, their library is outstanding. I highly recommend the site to anyone interested in the subject.

NDD,

As always, thanks for the professional endorsement. We put a lot of work into the site, the magazine and the discussion board and hope it is useful...

I am particularly proud of the library...

Again, much appreciated...

Dave Dilegge

Small Wars Journal

[CPTAUSRET]

Thanks Tom,
SWJ is a great resource, their library is outstanding. I highly recommend the site to anyone interested in the subject.

Agree, great site!

[Patriot]

As a member of SWJ, I concur! It's a great place to get information. In fact, I found this site through SWJ!

[BMT (RIP)]

http://www.smallwarsjournal.com/documents/kilcullen1.pdf

BMT

[NousDefionsDoc]

IRREGULAR ENEMIES AND THE ESSENCE OF STRATEGY:CAN THE AMERICAN WAY OF WAR ADAPT? (http://www.smallwars.quantico.usmc.mil/search/articles/PUB650.pdf)

[Para]

Some interesting on COIN Ops in Afghanistan. The thesis has some validity to it as USSF gets further removed from any influence/command and control in the Afghan National Army and becomes more reliant on it's "By, Through and With" local national forces being either Afghan National Police or Afghan Border Police.

[archade]

hi dear warriors,

here are some additional stuff for COIN studies :

[archade]

Sorry for last file, I didn't watch so carefully I expected the previous studies in the thread. I will post a list of others studies too heavy to be attached here at the end of the week.

[archade]

Feel free to contact me if you are looking for other studies on this topic. The upload limit of 1 Mo doesn't help me to post :-)

[archade]

another study under 1mo

[archade]

a new study
My € .02:munchin

[alfromcolorado]

NDD,

As always, thanks for the professional endorsement. We put a lot of work into the site, the magazine and the discussion board and hope it is useful...

I am particularly proud of the library...

Again, much appreciated...

Dave Dilegge

Small Wars Journal

You are a favorite link for everyone, civilian and Marine, working IW Branch Marine Special Operations School, MARSOC

[archade]

Dear QP

some others studies under 1 mo

My € .02

[archade]

others studies €.02

[head]

Courtesy of SWJ.
http://smallwarsjournal.com/blog/2010/06/the-coin-warrior-waging-influe/
“The COIN Warrior” Waging Influence
Hints for the Counterinsurgency (COIN) Strategy in Afghanistan
by Sean McKenna and Russell Hampsey

ISAFCAAT-E Memorandum Special to Small Wars Journal


The purpose of this document is to flatten the information sharing process across the force and provide information that we have seen throughout the Afghan Theater. The intent is to provide information to personnel in their pre-deployment training at the National and International Training Centers, as well as forces currently operating in the Afghan COIN Environment. The information contained in this document can be utilized as a pocket guide for continual reference.

Since the announcement of the Counterinsurgency Strategy with the publishing of the Integrated Civilian-Military Campaign Plan (ICMCP) we have advised and assisted numerous units from Regional Commands to Platoon sized elements. There are a few common threads that resonate throughout the lower echelons of command and we identified a need to address these universal issues.

This document is not a panacea, but should provide personnel at all levels with insight as to several techniques and ideas to put into their tool kit to improve their repertoire especially at the battalion, company, and platoon levels. The counterinsurgency environment in Afghanistan requires a customized approach in every village and valley; you are only limited by your imagination and ability to influence.

[Richard]

Cilliers, CJ. Counterinsurgency in Rhodesia; Biddles Ltd, UK; 1985.


A Brief History of the War for Zimbabwe 1890-1979
Command and Control
Protected and Consolidated Villages
Operations Overload and Overload 2
Border Minefield Obstacles
Pseudo Operations and the Selous Scouts
IDAD - PSYOPS - Poplation and Resource Control, Civic Action
External Operations
Operation Favour - Security Force Auxiliaries
Intelligence
The Security Situation by late 1979
Conclusion
Selected Bibliography

Downloadable 7.5mb pdf file at - http://www.iss.co.za/pubs/Books/rhodesia/Contents.htm

Richard

[BearW]

Great read.

Lots of good info here. I enjoyed the Unconventional COIN in AFG report.

Good link Richard, i'll be bookmarking that little guy.

Thanks Heaps,

Bear

[berdan]

If anyone is interested, I have some PDF books of a few classics.
PM and I will email books by Frank Kitson and Trinquier...

"Gangs and Counter-Gangs"

"Low Intensity Operations"

"Directing Operations"

"Modern Warfare"

Also_ "Bunch of Five" by Frank Kitson is being reprinted. Have not located a PDF copy as yet.

http://www.waterstones.com/waterstonesweb/products/frank+kitson/bunch+of+five/7738603/

Regards

Berdan

[archade]

others studies
respectfully

[MtnGoat]

others studies
respectfully

These are some great reads. Nice post on all the PDF files. THX

[archade]

Another one.
have a good day

[CryptKeeper]

I thought I'd add these.

Hopefully someone here will find them of interest.

[CryptKeeper]

A couple of interesting articles regarding COIN in Sri Lanka.

[archade]

some other studies about COIN

[Intel NCO]

some other studies about COIN

Thanks for sharing.