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August 11, 2010

Another COIN Myth Exposed - Protecting the Population
Posted by Michael Cohen

One of the more pernicious myths of the modern COIN fad is the focus on protecting civilians as an end goal in itself for COIN operations. As the argument goes, by protecting civilians counter-insurgents are able to shift the balance of popular support toward the government and away from the insurgent forces. The more people feel protected, the better chance they will reject the insurgent force and ally themselves with the government. The population is the center of gravity we are told.

For example, last spring here is how General McChrystal defined the fight in Afghanistan: 

“Central to counterinsurgency is protecting the people,” he said. . . Effectiveness is measured in “the number of Afghans shielded from violence.” 

The New York Times endorsed this view, making the argument:

Protecting Afghan civilians, and expanding the secure space in which they can safely go about their lives and livelihoods must now become the central purpose of American military operations in Afghanistan.
According to a new UN report, more than a year later, things are not working out too well:

In its midyear report, the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan said the number of civilians wounded and killed had increased by nearly a third in the first six months of the year, as coalition forces raised the level of military action against insurgents. In that period, 1,271 civilians were killed and 1,997 wounded, the report said, with more than three-quarters attributable to what it called “antigovernment elements.”

So what we have here is compelling evidence that our COIN strategy has been an dramatic failure; the US has largely been unable to protect Afghan civilians. In fact, their lives are now at greater risk than before we began to carry out a policy specifically geared toward protecting them.

None of this should be a huge surprise. As I noted last year, "By making civilian body counts the top metric you are waging war on the enemy's terms - and you are allowing them to dictate how you judge the success of your operation. If anything, you are actually giving incentive to the Taliban to kill more civilians."

This isn't to say that the Taliban are purposely targeting civilians, but it does suggest that the Taliban can easily undermine US strategy by placing civilians at greater risk. Indeed, violence against civilians has a multiplier effect because it cedes fear and uncertainty among the civilian population and convinces them not to take sides in a conflict.

The simple truth is that we have a fairly good sense - from studying COIN history - how you protect civilians from insurgents: you forcibly separate them. A tactic used to great success in Malaya and Kenya and to a different degree in Iraq. The current US strategy in Afghanistan of using a carrot, rather than a stick is not the path to success. In fact, if anything it seems to be causing more harm than good. 

None of this, of course, is to suggest that protecting the population is a bad thing or should be discouraged. Instead the experience of waging so-called population centric COIN in Afghanistan provides compelling evidence that military escalation, in general, is a poor means of achieving that goal. 

One would hope that the consistent failure of COIN theory when it is put in practice would lead the military to shelve the pseudo-science and unsupported arguments underpinning modern COIN doctrine, as described in FM 3-24. But to be honest, I'm not holding my breath.

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The refugees themselves, some placing on Laurent Gbagbo campaign T-shirts that recommended they experienced been opposed using the advancing rebels, spoke of the desperate trek south shortly after an assault inside the Ivorian village of Bloléquin. “We experienced been all through the bush for one week,” mentioned Zoué Bah Suzanne, 52. “Since I arrived, I want foodstuff to eat, I want a resting place to lie down.” With tens of a massive amount of refugees presently in Liberia, United Nations officials mentioned they experienced been struggling to muster an intercontinental response, at a time when numerous other crises experienced been demanding the world’s attention. “If you see the information in any intercontinental television set funnel these times you see Libya, Libya, Libya,” mentioned António Guterres, the United Nations considerable commissioner for refugees, all through a tour of impacted places in Liberia. searching for to proceed the Ivorians besides border settlements, the United Nations has opened a camp about 25 miles within Liberia. 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Konate Sidiki, a past Ivorian minister of tourism, now the secretary of institution using the rebels, argued that in spite of the humanitarian consequences, “there is no other solution” but force in the direction of Mr. Gbagbo. “For three weeks we make an effort to discuss, we make an effort to negotiate,” he said.

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