Edward Luttwak effectively dispatches coup plotters John Nagl and Paul Yingling in this essay on "How Trump Survives a Coup." americanmind.org/features/get-r… @ELuttwak
Time for putschist John Nagl to be put out to pasture. Some of us were discreet in criticizing his authorship of the Counterinsurgency Manual for not understanding the applications of strategic psychological warfare against insurgents. @ELuttwak has a better take. Read on...
"Nagl was known till now as the true author of the inordinately long, rebarbative, and repetitive counter-insurgency manual attributed to generals Petraeus and Mattis—hundreds of pages written to elide the simple fact ..." (continued)
"... that insurgents must be out-terrorized, as every empire has done throughout history."
Amen to that. Nagl wasted endless resources and countless lives with his kinder-and-gentler approach to jihadist (kill them but don't offend them) and his victory-free nation-building.
Amen to that. Nagl wasted endless resources and countless lives with his kinder-and-gentler approach to jihadist (kill them but don't offend them) and his victory-free nation-building.
In 2006 I wrote "Fighting the War of Ideas like a Real War" to fill a huge gap in John Nagl's Muslim Brotherhood-infused Counterinsurgency Manual for Petraeus and Mattis. It focuses on the psychological warfare aspect of COIN, which the US did poorly. amazon.com/Fighting-War-I…
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