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