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Check "Counterinsurgency and Its Discontents" by Dr Dave Ucko:
This article examines the value of retaining counterinsurgency as a concept, along with its associated principles and theory. Much depends on what is expected from this term, which lacks both definition and clear substance. Counterinsurgency provides neither a strategy for military intervention nor a campaign plan for deployed soldiers and will fail if mistaken for more than what it is.
Counterinsurgency does offer a collection of insights, which, if used in a manner sensitive to local context, can help in the design and execution of expeditionary campaigns. These insights are often largely commonsensical but have nonetheless played an important role in challenging previously dominant misconceptions about the nature of war and peace, both in Europe and the United States.
The KoW description and prior discussion can be found here.
The Abstract can be found here.
Full article published by the Berlin-based SWP can be found here
Pic - "klotzen nicht kleckern" mit die COIN Külten damenfreunden vom GrEaT sATAn"S gIrLfRiEnD
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