Dec 2, 2011
(Washington Post) - As Defense Secretary Leon Panetta prepares his recommendations for Pentagon budget cuts, he is likely to reduce the military?s resources for future, large-scale counterinsurgency operations of the sort that were ballyhooed just a few years ago in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The boom in ?COIN,? as these operations are known, has proved to be something of a bubble. Budget pressures ...
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