Came back from a COIN T3 (Counterinsurgency Train the Trainer) Conference out in Hohenfels, Germany. The conference went through the weekend, which sucks, but it was definitely worthwhile. The audience was mainly Majors-Colonels from respective allied armies (very few Americans there).
Couple of qucik points about the conference:
-If you put a bunch of high ranking officers in a room together, especially from different countries, it can easily become a cluster-fuck of non-intelligible sharp shooting of the briefer, or a series of individuals standing on their soap box to make a mediocre point... luckily, it did not go in this direction- the briefer was shit hot and put out any potential fires.
-Despite the amount of time we have been in Afghanistan, we have yet to standardize the application of COIN (Counter-insurgency) as well as standardizing a teaching program- the course I took is a draft to the Basic COIN class that should be coming out soon.
-The army has been teaching too much theory and not enough application- seems like we are finally headed in the right direction as far as applying theory.
-The environment shapes your operations, not the other way around. Simple, yet as an organization, we still stick to the conventional mentality of Operations shaping the environment.
Whoops, lunch time is over... OUT!
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