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Ep 020 “COIN Malpractice: Lessons Never Learned, Part One”

by | Jul 10, 2023

Ep 020 “COIN Malpractice: Lessons Never Learned, Part One”

by | Jul 10, 2023

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Episode Notes

That is GEN Stanley McChrystal’s dream image of the totality of the COIN problem in Afghanistan.

What a mess.

It appears the West just can’t get counterinsurgency right. I talk about some of the framework ideas that would be good lessons learned for those who I think wisely and would try to avoid COIN. The major takeaway is that insurgencies are rather antifragile and bureaucracies are the enemy of effectiveness and innovation.

References:

Nassim Taleb: The Black Swan, Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

Douglas Porch: Counterinsurgency: Exposing the Myths of the New Way of War

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Bill Buppert

Bill Buppert

Bill Buppert is the host of Chasing Ghosts: An Irregular Warfare Podcast and a contributor over time to various liberty endeavors. He served in the military for nearly a quarter century and contractor tours after retirement on occasion and was a combat tourist in a number of neo-imperialist shit-pits around the world.

He can be found on twitter at @wbuppert and reached via email at cgpodcast@pm.me.

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