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60. Department of Defense, Report of the Defense

65. Jeffrey Record makes a similar argument. See,

"The American Way of War: Cultural Barriers to

Science Board Task Force on Strategic Communication

(September 2004), p. 81.

Successful Counterinsurgency," Cato Policy Anal-

ysis no. 577, September 1, 2006.

61. George Bush, State of the Union Address,

Washington, January 23, 2007, www.whitehouse.

66. Ibid.

gov/news/releases/2007/01/20070123-2.html. See

67. As the Army­Marine Corps Couterinsurgency Field

also, Richard G. Lugar and Condoleezza Rice, "A

Manual (FM 3-24) notes, waging effective coun-

Civilian Partner for Our Troops," Washington Post,

terinsurgency requires a long-term commitment.

December 17, 2007.

"Insurgencies are protracted by nature. Thus, COIN

62. A good discussion of these problems is Edward

operations always demand considerable expendi-

Luttwak, "Dead End: Counterinsurgency Warfare

tures of time and resources." Department of the

as Military Malpractice," Harpers (February 2007),

Army, "Counterinsurgents Should Prepare for a

pp. 33­42. See also Coyne, pp. 112­113.

Long-Term Commitment, 1-134," in FM 3-24 (De-

cember 2006).

63. Gil Merom, How Democracies Lose Small Wars:

68. See especially David J. Kilcullen, "New Para-

State, Society, and the Failures of France in Algeria, Israel

in Lebanon, and the United States in Vietnam (New

digms for 21st-Century Conflict," eJournal USA 12,

York: Cambridge University Press, 2003). See also

no. 5 (May 2007): 39­45, usinfo.state.gov/journals

Jeffrey Record, Beating Goliath: Why Insurgencies Win

/itps/0507/ijpe/kilcullen.htm.

(Washington, DC: Potomac Books, 2007).

69. Ron Suskind, The One Percent Doctrine: Deep Inside

64. There are a few exceptions, however. See Max

America's Pursuit of its Enemies Since 9/11 (New York:

Boot, "The Case for American Empire," Weekly

Simon and Schuster, 2006), pp. 156­57, 204­206.

Standard, October 15, 2001, pp. 27­30; Max Boot,

70. The best source is Robert Pape, Dying to Win: The

"American Imperialism? No Need to Run Away

Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism (New York: Random

from Label," USA Today, May 6, 2003; and Jeffrey

House, 2006).

Garten, "The U.S. Needs to Create a Colonial

Service," Foreign Policy (September/October 2003):

71. Logan and Preble.

63­67.

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