Book Review: The Thai Way of Counterinsurgency by Jeff M. Moore PhD
[FULL DISCLOSURE: I received my copy of this book free from the author and/or publisher. I was not paid for this review and the opinion expressed is purely my own] Anybody who has read this blog over the past few years will know that I am not a big fan of COIN doctrine as currently espoused by the US Army. My objections to COIN are mainly that it doesn’t work, not because the US gets it wrong but because the US is the wrong vehicle to execute the COIN fight in a foreign land. Foreigners are automatically hamstrung in implementing a successful COIN strategy by the fact that they are … More after the Jump…