Awakening, Shuras, Lashkars, Sulwa Judum
Open source counter insurgency is zooming. Problem is very few understand it. Shaun Waterman, writing for ISN, does a great job going over various opinions. Too much to quote.
Doing this well, however, requires information flows that are just too rare in the disparate and destitute areas where this approach works. It’s a mitigation strategy, not designed to strengthen the state.
Be wary of anyone who says this strategy is in a COIN textbook.
-Shlok
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