Looking for something for that hard-to-buy-for officer in Afghanistan? Small Wars Journal Blog has the solution:
Small Wars Journal and Abu Muqawama recently commented on the formation of the new U.S. Army Counterinsurgency (COIN) Academy in Afghanistan. We were particularly interested in the Academy’s pursuit of building a first-class COIN library.
So… SWJ and AM have decided to aid in building the library with a little help from our friends. We e-mailed the COIN Academy requesting their reading list. They responded with titles of books and movies that once in hand would go a long way in establishing a world-class COIN library.
To streamline our effort we have set up the Afghanistan COIN Library
on Amazon.
The items you purchase from that list are shipped directly to Afghanistan to seed the COIN Academy’s library with titles that will allow the staff to better appreciate history, culture, and insurgency in Afghanistan. The COIN Academy will become a part of the Afghan Defense University, so the titles will eventually make their way into its library.
