Assessing Stability During Counterinsurgency (COIN) or Stability and Support Operations Through Patrol Debriefs

摘要

This situation is exactly what I faced in Baghdad in late April 2003. The city of five million was, at the time, broken up into 55 zones and there was very little that we knew about the city. The task was to determine which zones required immediate attention, what kind of attention, and what priority each effort should have. The methodology we created was not only very user-(collector) and analyst-friendly, but it briefed well. After just two weeks of collection, we were able to not only pinpoint which five zones were the most unstable, but we could make very precise recommendations about the type of efforts needed in each zone.