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I once met a gentleman who had recently lost his son in a car accident. At the time his son was playing football for a large university. Everywhere the man turned he saw his son’s number: on license plates, billboards, embedded in account numbers...
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Advising and Assisting Foreign Security Forces, which is part of the Security Force Assistance mission, occurs at every level of war: tactical, operational and strategic. Each level requires its own set of competencies. One would envision that generally...
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“I had good and bad Soviet advisors. I had good and bad U.S. advisors. It seemed at times as though the Soviets took better care of us.” -comment made by an Afghan National Army (ANA) officer to SFA researcher, 2009 Comments like the aforementioned...
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The Find, Fix, Finish, Exploit, Access and Disseminate (more popularly called F3EAD ) paradigm must be adapted for direct Foreign Internal Defense missions, not involving combat (which also might be called Indirect COIN or "soft handed" COIN...
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Making decisions in a COIN environment requires leaders to think differently about problems. At times, quick decisions must be made because time is of the essence. During these situations leaders rely on intuition to make decisions. Intuition is based...
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“ Do not build walls between yourselves and the people. The people will protect you. The people are your wall against the insurgents .” –Guidance issued by Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) Ground Force Commander to his troops on...
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When is an insurgency over? In the weeks since Russia announced an end to its counterterrorism operation in Chechnya , there has been a surge in violence in the region, some of it associated with Chechen insurgents. The Jamestown Foundation reported bombings...
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