• Darkcommie@lemmygrad.ml
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    https://wavellroom.com/2023/10/27/us-army-counterinsurgency-doctrine/#%3A~%3Atext=This+article+argues+that+the%2Covercome+the+US+Army's+inflexibility. “ After the end of the Vietnam War, the US Army shifted its focus from conducting counterinsurgency operations towards conventional warfare against Warsaw Pact forces in Europe. Counterinsurgency became less of a priority and was seen more as a distraction.[mote] Cassidy, Robert M., Counterinsurgency and the Global War on Terror: Military Culture and Irregular War. (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2006.), 100-101[/note] In line with the so-called Nixon Doctrine23, the US Army only planned to participate in a supporting role in counterinsurgency operations. Such a role, also called the advisory approach, included using advisors and providing resources but excluded the actual employment of combat forces. According to Ucko, this focus on the advisory approach prevented the Army from thoroughly engaging with counterinsurgency theories”

    https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/06_counterinsurgency_ohanlon.pdf

    https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/ADA600359.pdf

    I love being right

    My timeline for Afghanistan was wrong I thought the troop drawdown was in 2010 but it was in 2011

    Love how it didnt fit with your narrative so you Malded instead

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      Your sources are a blog from a Australian Colonel, and a report from the brookings institute that quite literally supports my position and is the first thing that comes up when you look up “US counterinsurgency”

      That’s some revolutionary research. Horrifically smarmy and disingenuous. Did you even read the Brookings piece?

      “I love being right” what are you? 12?