CounterInsurgency Culture War

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James Joyner of Outside the Beltway has an article at TCS Daily about the culture war facing our military:

The Most Important Culture War
Next month, the Army and Marine Corps will unveil a revised counterinsurgency manual scheduled which incorporates lessons learned in Afghanistan, Iraq, and elsewhere.
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The Iraq War has surely changed the mindset of much of the senior leadership, and almost everyone at the battalion level and below has now grown up in a military that has primarily engaged in what we once called "operations other than war." Still, there are powerful incentives institutionally and politically to prepare for big wars rather than small ones...

Read the whole piece (including some good questions from Kevin Drum).

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CounterInsurgency Culture War

James Joyner of Outside the Beltway has an article at TCS Daily about the culture war facing our military:

The Most Important Culture War
Next month, the Army and Marine Corps will unveil a revised counterinsurgency manual scheduled which incorporates lessons learned in Afghanistan, Iraq, and elsewhere.
<...>
The Iraq War has surely changed the mindset of much of the senior leadership, and almost everyone at the battalion level and below has now grown up in a military that has primarily engaged in what we once called "operations other than war." Still, there are powerful incentives institutionally and politically to prepare for big wars rather than small ones...

Read the whole piece (including some good questions from Kevin Drum).

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