The US Army COIN Center will be hosting Dr. Christopher Paul for a webcast briefing on 8 September. Paul is a social scientist at the RAND Corporation, and is the lead author of a significant study on COIN, considering 30 insurgency cases, published as Victory Has a Thousand Fathers: Sources of Success in Counterinsurgency.
In his 2011 article in Joint Force Quarterly, Evidentiary Validation of FM 3–24: Counterinsurgency Worldwide, 1978–2008, he argues that the weight of recent historical evidence strongly supports the principles espoused in current COIN doctrine, finding “a remarkably strong correlation between the application of FM 3–24 principles and success in COIN.”
The briefing is scheduled for Thursday, 8 September 2011, at 1000 CDT (1100 EDT, 15:00 ZULU).
Those interested in attending may view and participate in the meeting via Defense Connect Online (DCO), where they will be able to interact with the briefer. Visit https:// Connect.dco.dod.mil/coinweb.