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posted September 01, 2014 01:35 AM            

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Anatomy of a Successful COIN Operation: OEF-Philippines and The Indirect Approach
by Colonel Gregory Wilson, U.S. Army
Military Review, November-December 2006 http://www.army.mil/professionalWriting/volumes/volume5/january_2007/1_07_1.html

COIN = counterinsurgency. Think of it, in a civilian context, as fighting against criminal activity in any American city populace, no matter how white or black. Insurgents are criminals, whether Mafiosi or drug cartels. Think of the Philippine military as regular police officers in the U.S. You'll get the message.

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The United states became interested in the Southern Philippines shortly before 9/11, after Abu Sayyaf kidnapped several U.S. Citizens and held them hostage on their island stronghold of Basilan.16 After 9/11, the region became a front line in the war. Operation Enduring Freedom-Philippines (OEF-P) officially began in early 2002 and is best known for Joint task Force (JTF) 510's combined U.S.-Philippine operations on Basilan (Balikatan 02-1). Special Forces (SF) advisory efforts began in the Southern Philippines in 2002 and continue to this day.

The Diamond Model

the unconventional or indirect approach of working "by, with, and through" indigenous forces has remained consistent throughout OEF-P.17 Led by Brigadier General Donald Wurster and colonel David Fridovich, OEF-P planners created their guiding strategy using principles that can be found in Gordon Mccormick's strategic COIN model, called the Diamond Model.18 This model can help planners develop an effective holistic approach to cut off organizations like Abu Sayyaf and Jemaah Islamiyya from their bases of popular support and to isolate, capture, or kill their members and leaders. The Philippine Government and its armed forces now call the application of principles found in the Diamond Model the "Basilan Model," after its successful use against Abu Sayyaf on Basilan in 2002.

The Diamond Model establishes a comprehensive framework for interactions between the host-nation government, the insurgents, the local populace, and international actors or sponsors. The host-nation government's goal is to destroy the insurgents or limit their growth and influence to a manageable level. Their opponent's goal is to grow large enough to destroy the state's control mechanisms and then either replace the existing government or force political concessions from it that achieve the group's objectives. Jemaah Islamiyya's and Abu Sayyaf's objectives were to create Islamic caliphates or states in the southern Philippines, Malaysia, and Indonesia.19

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The Diamond Model can help establish the optimal strategy the state should pursue to rectify its information disadvantage and win the COIN fight.... Because it suffers from an information disadvantage, the state must first ... strengthen its influence and control over the local populace. Mccormick defines control as "the ability to see everything in one's area of operation that might pose a threat to security and the ability to influence what is seen." This level of visibility requires an extensive human intelligence network; it cannot be achieved by technological means. When military strategist John Paul Vann pointed out about U.S. Counterinsurgency efforts in Vietnam is true today: "We need intelligence from the local civilians and soldiers from the area who understand the language, customs, and the dynamics of the local situation, who can easily point out strangers in the area even though they speak the same language."

Gaining popular support is a zero-sum game. One side's loss is the other's gain, and vice versa. Strengthening ties with the local populace by focusing on their needs and security also denies or degrades insurgent influence over the people and leads to information that exposes the insurgent infrastructure. This allows the state to ... disrupt the insurgent's control mechanisms over the people. These moves often lead to actionable intelligence, which the state can use to target the insurgency's infrastructure. Actionable intelligence gained by patiently pursuing efforts ... enables the state to identify and strike the insurgents....

Military forces conducting COIN operations typically ignore [the first part] of the model and attempt to directly target their opponents. As the Vietnam war showed, this usually entails large-scale search-and-destroy operations that the insurgents easily avoid and that often produce collateral damage that alienates the people.... The overall strategy (internal to the state) identifies the local populace as the center of gravity in the COIN fight and winning popular support as the key to the state's ability to remedy its information disadvantage and win the conflict. The indirect approach of working through the local populace and indigenous security forces to target the insurgents thus becomes the most direct path to victory....

Using their language and cultural skills, the SF [Special Forces] teams quickly formed a bond with their military counterparts and local villagers. Their first goal was to establish a secure environment and protect the local populace. SF advisory teams went to work immediately, honing AFP [Philippine army] military skills through focused training activities that increased unit proficiency and instilled confidence. According to one SF adviser, "SF detachments converted AFP base camps on Basilan into tactically defensible areas, and they trained Philippine soldiers and marines in the combat lifesaving skills needed for providing emergency medical treatment with confidence. Those lifesaving skills were a significant morale booster for the AFP."

Increased patrolling accompanied training, which allowed the AFP and local security forces to reestablish security at the village level and seize the initiative from the insurgents. SF advisers credited an aggressive increase in AFP patrolling with denying Abu Sayyaf its habitual sanctuary and curtailing the group's movement. The SF teams played a key role in building AFP capacity by accompanying units (as advisers only) on combat operations.

Reestablishing security and protecting the Basilan people were the foundation for all other activities [in the first part] of the Diamond Model.

Once security was established, both civil affairs and SF soldiers worked with their counterparts to execute high-impact projects that produced immediate and positive benefits for the local population. Humanitarian assistance and civic action projects were initially targeted to meet the basic needs of the local populace, then refined and tailored for particular regions and provinces based on assessment results. As the security situation improved, the U.S. Naval construction Task Group deployed to the Island to execute larger scale projects such as well digging, general construction, and improvements to roads, bridges, and piers. In addition to enhancing military capabilities, these infrastructure projects benefited local residents. When possible, locally procured materials and workers were used in order to put money directly into the local economy. Humanitarian and civic-action projects on Basilan improved the image of the AFP and the Manila government and helped return law and order to the Island. A key component in [the first part] of the model, the projects earned local respect, improved force protection, and reduced Muslim village support for the insurgents.

Consequently, the AFP was able to cultivate closer relations with the people in insurgent-influenced areas. As colonel Darwin Guerra, battalion commander of the 32d infantry, AFP, reported, "Where once the people supported rebels and extremists because they felt neglected or oppressed by the government, the delivery of their basic needs like health and nutrition services, construction of infrastructure and impact projects, and strengthening security in the community that the Balikatan program brought [sic] changed their attitudes and loyalty. As residents began to experience better living conditions, they withdrew support from the militants." (emphasis added)

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More:
http://www.academia.edu/88 5570/Counter-Insurgency_in_the_Philippines_and_the_Global_War_on_Terror_Examing_the_Dynamics_of_the_21st_Century_Long_Wars

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For an armed force waging [regional terrorist insurgency], a well-proven strategy is not to militarily defeat the insurgents but to delegitimise the insurgents from the eyes of the public.... The (military) response needs to be restrained, obedient to the principle of minimum force, and respectful of the rights and feeling of suspect communities within the state....

Irregular warfare and insurgency have been fought by regular armed forces for decades and how to wage a counter-insurgency campaign is actually no mystery.... [T]he AFP adopted the so-called Lam-bat Bitag (Fishing Net) strategy against the insurgents that involved the use of Special Operation Teams (SOT) in communist-controlled villages. [This] strategy is made up of three components: the deployment of elite army units to conduct psychological/ military operations in a communist-influenced hamlet; territorial security requiring the formation territorial units to defend the village against mobile insurgent groups; and stay-behind or consolidation operations that facilitate the entry of civilian agencies bringing basic services and generating economic activities in the targeted village.

... As a representative of the state, the military must prove that it is morally ascendant and politically superior to the guerrillas, responsive to the people’s basic needs, and quick to address the sources of their disgruntlement and discontent that have fueled the insurgency in the first place

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posted September 01, 2014 08:41 AM            

Instead, back the Jew hating terrorist supporters come with an empty argument about the Torah.

So Jew hating terrorist supporters, show me a passage from the Torah which requires Jews to submit..without resistence, to their own murders and the murders of their wives and children.

Oh, and don't you dare suggest that's not exactly what you're talking about here Jew hating terrorist supporters.

You have castigated Israel for striking back at Islamic Hamas terrorists engaged in trying to kill Israeli civilians.

You Jew hating terrorist supporters completely ignore the terrorist Hamas Charter which calls for the EXTERMINATION OF THE JEWS.

There's your intent and attempt at GENOCIDE.

posted September 01, 2014 09:37 AM            

There's your intent and attempt at GENOCIDE.

Nuclear Agreement!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Times Infinity

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posted September 01, 2014 03:32 PM            

Hammas is horrid and evil. We all have said so. To keep trying to get the point across and give the original post the attention it deserves, we should remember
Christians don`t give vile genocide any type of support regardless of the race or religion promoting it.

Ones waiting here for some "Jew haters" will be waiting an awful long time so in the interim, Let the posters post their vitriolic opinions and move on with sharing in what the halocaust victims are saying.

posted September 01, 2014 06:14 PM            

To the MAX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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posted September 01, 2014 10:44 PM            

Got it now Jew hating terrorist supporters?

Real "Righteous Jews" would take their instruction from the Old Testament and perhaps the Torah.

No one here has so much as attempted to post any passage from the Old Testament or the Torah whereby Jews are commanded to submit..without resistance to their murder and murder of their wives and children.

posted September 01, 2014 11:20 PM            

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Originally posted by jwhop:
Get with the program and stop posting bullshiiit.

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The only one posting BS is you, jwhop, and your use of straw men and other fallacies spiced with name calling and non sequiturs without any real substance. Everything you believe about liberals is a really apt reflection of your true self. It is because of your severe irrationality that I normally don't even bother to read anything you have to post anymore. The only one you're fooling is Ami Anne, and that's just because she wants to be fooled.

And I'll add that plenty of Christians and conservatives are embarrassed by people like you.

posted September 02, 2014 12:26 AM            

No one has complained about "fighting back". Appropriating the West Bank and gaza piece by piece is not fighting back it is aggression and defiance of the settlement terms by which israel was created to begin with. The plan of SOME israelis has ALWAYS been to drive out the natives to make room for more Israel.

There is documentation of same plans going back to the 19th c..

posted September 02, 2014 07:36 AM            

Get with the program and stop posting bullshiiit.

PS: CLUE: The answer is inherent in the question
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posted September 02, 2014 11:10 PM            

The only "straw man" argument here is the so called "righteous Jews" who want Jews in Israel to submit the their murders and the murders of their wives and children.

There is not one "Righteous Jew" who does not take their instruction from the Old Testament and/or the Torah. Yet, there is not one passage in either text which commands Jews to submit to being murdered by their enemies along with their wives and children. Far from it.

There's the straw man argument and it's the title to this thread. Leftists are forever trotting out "straw man" arguments in attempts to advance their causes.

posted September 03, 2014 07:49 AM            

NO ONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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posted September 03, 2014 08:30 AM            

T-O-T-A-L-A-M-A-N-T-E-

P.S I made up that word myself

P.P.S

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posted September 03, 2014 11:27 AM            

And jwhop protesting in his bluff double leo way that he never called YOU leftist.

I sense a major disconnect here which makes discussion impossible so will not engage any arguments put out by those who either cant compute or wont admit they are refuting a point that hasnt been made

If being a righteous jew only meant following the letter of the book then the case that genocide is their true motive would be made .. by those who protest its only self defense.

posted September 03, 2014 11:34 AM            

NO ONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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posted September 03, 2014 01:02 PM            

Even those who support israel in gaza see the land grab in the west bank for what it is though they dont seem to see that the gaza situation is in response to former landgrabbing.

posted September 03, 2014 01:09 PM            

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posted September 03, 2014 10:10 PM            

You will not engage because the props have been kicked out from under all your obtuse arguments. You are supporting murderous Islamic terrorists. That's the long and the short of your arguments.

shura...before she was shura...TINK then, said I saw her as a commie pinko babe. Denied then, denied now.

posted September 03, 2014 10:22 PM            

You will not engage because the props have been kicked out from under all your obtuse arguments. You are supporting murderous Islamic terrorists. That's the long and the short of your arguments.

I could not have said it better myself !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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