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- abbreviation US, military COunter INsurgency
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almost all the McC quotes are actually off the record comments from unknown aides.. and the term COIN which is COUNTER INTELLIGENCE not COUNTER INSURGENCY… dots the whole thing..
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and my favorite, sure to inflame the old left, was to associate their current counter intelligence operations using the term COIN… with a term like COINdanistas… but how many but old guard remember the COINTELPRO espionage stuff?
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COIN is clearly, by comparison to the alternative military concentrations on consideration, still a low-profit enterprise.
Matthew Yglesias » The Think Tank Arm of the Military-Industrial Complex 2009
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COIN is clearly, by comparison to the alternative military concentrations on consideration, still a low-profit enterprise.
Matthew Yglesias » The Think Tank Arm of the Military-Industrial Complex 2009
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COIN is largely based on winning the hearts and minds of the local populace, which became an impossible endeavor once Bush and his henchmen inserted Hamid Karzai as President of Afghanistan against the will of the Afghan people.
Michael Hughes: Bush Created A No-Win Situation in Afghanistan for Obama Michael Hughes 2010
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COIN is largely based on winning the hearts and minds of the local populace, which became an impossible endeavor once Bush and his henchmen inserted Hamid Karzai as President of Afghanistan against the will of the Afghan people.
Michael Hughes: Bush Created A No-Win Situation in Afghanistan for Obama Michael Hughes 2010
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COIN is clearly, by comparison to the alternative military concentrations on consideration, still a low-profit enterprise.
Matthew Yglesias » The Think Tank Arm of the Military-Industrial Complex 2009
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COIN is largely based on winning the hearts and minds of the local populace, which became an impossible endeavor once Bush and his henchmen inserted Hamid Karzai as President of Afghanistan against the will of the Afghan people.
Michael Hughes: Bush Created A No-Win Situation in Afghanistan for Obama Michael Hughes 2010
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And we could surge to break the momentum but not stay in a long-term COIN strategy.
Obama’s Wars Bob Woodward 2010
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One of the key tenets of COIN is that the counterinsurgent should operate according to the rule of law.
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