Our own Christian Lowe is embedded with U.S. forces in Afghanistan through June 1 and sends us this dispatch from Camp Bastion in southern Afghanistan. By Christian Lowe CAMP BASTION, Afghanistan — It was touted as the answer to critics who said the MV-22 didn’t have enough firepower on board to shoot its way into […]
From the monthly archives:
May 2010
M-ATV builder Oshkosh, and the Marine Corps program office that manages M-ATVs, didn’t much like the story we ran the other day from our embedded correspondent Christian Lowe who reported that troops in Afghanistan are no longer allowed off base in anything but heavily armored IED-resistant vehicles. Well, they liked parts of the story. This […]
Afghan commander Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s counterinsurgency guidance has taken what many considered to be a very, very soft approach to combating insurgents as laid down in the COIN manual, and softened it even more. Protecting the population, respecting their culture and sitting and drinking lots of tea with local leaders to gain their trust basically […]
The Economist reports that military delegations from some of the world’s less savory regimes have been visiting Sri Lanka ever since it crushed the Tamil Tiger insurgency in search of a model they can reverse engineer and apply in their own countries. Sri Lanka’s COIN approach is about as far from Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s population […]
If you haven’t already stumbled across Travels With Shiloh’s write up of the Army and Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Center COIN conference held earlier this month at Ft. Leavenworth, I heartily recommend it. Here is part one. Monday’s entry featured notes from a presentation by British Army Lt. Col. Rupert Jones, son of another famous LTC […]
