Hammer and anvil tactic

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Gentile complains that the classical notion of strategy has been weakened and then buried under the fetishization of COIN. ‘The Death of American Strategy’ by Gentile in the third issue of Infinity Journal is the latest salvo in Gentile’s increasing frustration with the population-centric variant of Counterinsurgency (COIN) and its use on the battlefield. By itself, this is not a statement to be taken lightly. So this is the only place this piece will remain.Ĭounterinsurgency, according to Colonel Gian P.

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