One of the tertiary benefits to Iraq’s surge — aside from the military victory — was the birth of a group of military thinkers informally called the COINdistinas. Though sticking counter-insurgency on the front burner of Armed Forces combat doctrine remains a hot debate inside the Pentagon, there’s no question that the ideas pushed out by these razor sharp strategists saved Iraq.
In yesterday’s New York Daily News, one prominent alumnus of that lauded brain trust, Dr. John Nagl, laid out a must-read on how to translate the success from post-2007 Mesopotamia to the Hindu Kush:
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