COIN Sources
 

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
Good link from SWJ.

Strategic Aspects of COIN

Another from SWJ.

1962 RAND COIN Study Group

This is a good one.

Small Wars Journal Magazine Vol 5
 

This came out yesterday on SWJ. Here is the table of contents:
Go to: http://www.smallwarsjournal.com/swjmag_current.htm



Best All,

Tom

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

Agree, great site!

Concur!
 

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

Counterinsurgency Redux
 

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

BMT

Gray on Herr on UW
 

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.

hi dear warriors,

here are some additional stuff for COIN studies :

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.

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 :-)

another study under 1mo

a new study
My € .02:munchin

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

Dear QP

some others studies under 1 mo

My € .02

others studies €.02

"The COIN Warrior"
 

Courtesy of SWJ.
http://smallwarsjournal.com/blog/201...waging-influe/

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

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

Frank Kitson and Trinquier
 

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/waterston...+five/7738603/

Regards

Berdan

others studies
respectfully

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

Another one.
have a good day

I thought I'd add these.

Hopefully someone here will find them of interest.

Sri Lanka
 

A couple of interesting articles regarding COIN in Sri Lanka.

back with studies
 

some other studies about COIN

Thanks for sharing.