GEN(Ret) Jack Keene, Former Vice Chief of Staff of the Army, told Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld:
"You and others shoud read a book called Counterinsurgency Warfare: Theory and Practice
by David Galula. It's only about 100 pages, and if you don't want to read the whole hundred pages,
read the foreword, the introduction and then read chapters 4 through 7, which is really execution."
It's been mentioned here before, but if you want to learn about COIN,
add this to the read list:
http://www.amazon.com/Counterinsurge...1991143&sr=8-1
Counterinsurgency Warfare: Theory and Practice
by LTC David Galula
Foreword by John Nagl