Monday, August 12, 2013

Counterinsurgency Cops

The 60 Minutes report is more remarkable for what it doesn’t say concerning the application of COIN in America. This didn’t begin in a vacuum. The theoretical underpinnings for this approach have been in the developmental stages for a long time. The so-called war on drugs was the casus belli for the militarization of the local police forces in the U.S., although it took time to effect the evolution far and wide.

1 comment:

SWIFT said...

Too predictable. Springfield, Massachusetts comes up with a home grown idea to make neighborhoods safer. Seth Jones of the Rand Corporation suggests that all answers should come from the Federal Government. Can anyone possibly be so brain dead, that they sincerely believe answers come from the Federal government, where nothing works? Where there has not been an origin thought in over two hundred years? My, my, my!