Maybe COIN resembles the management fads that occasionally sweep like a flu outbreak through corporate suites. If so, however, it will likely prove, like its corporate counterpart, regularly circumvented at the rank and file level. In the latest incident, it is reported that the air strike on a pair of tanker trucks captured by the Taliban was against the "spirit" of U.S. Army General Stanley McChrystal's orders. In country troops don't like orders that seem to let "bad guys" slip away too easily, perhaps to plant the IED that will kill them or their buddies the next day. Expect to see …
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