Reading assignmentTheo Farrell, CSI Lecture 7, 2011
Blessed be “The Peacemakers”
Yeah baby!
Group Fiasco Punishment of Virtue
Looming Tower
COTU X
Philistines X
Rogue Steaks X
Orientals X
JCDG X
Justice League X
Love X
Snake X
Switzerland X
Jihad Kings X
Philth X
Peacemakers X
Fiasco: 5
1. Politicization of intelligence
2. The Civ-Mil ‘Team’
3. Bureaucratic warfare
4. Plan for Phase IV
5. COIN tactics
Politicalisation of Intelligence
“cherry-picking information”
The Civ-Mil ‘Team’
Bureaucratic warfare
Plan for Phase IV
COIN tactics – WHAM?
Looming Tower: 5
1. Inter-agency cooperation (Snake)
2. Better intelligence (JL)
3. Cultural understanding (Swiss, Philth)
4. Evolution of terrorist threat (Peaceniks, Jihad Kings)
5. CT tactics – interrogation, troops?
Tough cookie
Punishment of Virtue: 5
1. Understand the human terrain
2. Choose allies carefully
3. Learn the language
4. Target aid
5. COIN tactics
Human terrain (and history)
Who controls Kandahar?
Choose allies carefully
Learn the lingo
Target aid
COIN tactics