We're the Military and Airpower Guys of Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online + a stray we found wandering around looking lost. All original material JHD, BHD, JR, WT, and KA 2003-2010 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/03/counterinsurgen_1.html Fri, 06 Jan 2012 18:29:32 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2012 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification UPDATE: Audio, and transcript. Also, check out COL Roper's bio: three master's degrees, one in nuclear physics. LT G recently wrote about Counterinsurgency doctrine (COIN) from the ground point of view. This morning, I got the chance to hear about it from the "big picture" perspective in a DoD Blogger's Roundtable. The guest was Colonel Daniel S. Roper, Director, U.S. Army and Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Center at Ft. Leavenworth, who recently spent time evaluating Counterinsurgency operations in Iraq. The center was set up by General Petraeus to be as COL Roper put it, "the focal point connecting all the different... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/03/counterinsurgen_1.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/03/counterinsurgen_1.html Thu, 20 Mar 2008 13:35:31 -0600 Thanks, Hacksaw Re: "missing COIN doctrine/rewriting," I don't think COL Roper really said that directly, but he seemed to allude to it when he talked a lot about brainstorming and mutual education happening with the countries I mentioned in the 2nd paragraph. It's all in the transcript I linked above. And I like your idea! I remember reading somewhere that there are at least a handful of young veterans who are going the State Department route. I know one of them personally. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/03/counterinsurgen_1.html#comment-70981 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/03/counterinsurgen_1.html#comment-70981 Fri, 21 Mar 2008 09:10:18 -0600 Nice summary Fbl... you know something to consider is whether the government could/would roll all those Soldiers who are stop loss or wounded warriors and provide them the opportunity to work in State or Aid. It would require a degree of re-training, but I can't think of a whole lot better whole cloth from which to start from. It is probably also worth noting, if COL Roper did not, that there is a real effort right now to finish writing all the missing COIN doctrine (Joint, NATO, Tactical). Many are socializing the idea that we should update 3-24 now that we've seen it in action... Live well and row http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/03/counterinsurgen_1.html#comment-70979 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/03/counterinsurgen_1.html#comment-70979 Fri, 21 Mar 2008 08:16:53 -0600 Hunh? http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/03/counterinsurgen_1.html#comment-70969 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/03/counterinsurgen_1.html#comment-70969 Thu, 20 Mar 2008 19:30:12 -0600 But what was Sigger's (ArmchairGeneralist) complaint. He always has one. ;) We do like you, J. You're just as chronically cranky as me it would appear. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/03/counterinsurgen_1.html#comment-70966 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/03/counterinsurgen_1.html#comment-70966 Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:17:51 -0600