In The American Conservative (August 01, 2009 issue) D.C.-based freelance reporter Kelley Beaucar Vlahos gives a short, but well delivered, insight of the D.C. side of the US A’Stan COIN doctrine (Nagl, Kilcullen, Petraeus, CNAS et allii). Enjoy reading The American Conservative – One-Sided COIN
I tend to apreciate AmConMag. In papers previously posted on TAC’s website, you can read a certain Paul Robinson (author of a book on the history of Soviet economic and technical assistance to Afghanistan) quietly stating that We aren’t the first to try nation-building in Afghanistan and a review of the latest encyclical from the Holy Father, titled Benedict vs the Neocons, nonetheless…