No international peace operation had previously applied the COIN concept, and although it gradually

September 21, 2009 published the journalist Bob Woodward extract from the then still secret so-called McChyrstal report in the Washington Post. General Stanley McChyrstal had in the summer took command of the now US-led ISAF force in Afghanistan. The war against the Taliban, or "insurgents", everything went worse and something needs to be done, unclear. The new General had, however, its solution clear, taken from Iraq and traded in U.S. box regulations known Counterinsurgency Warfare.
Its main principle, to distinguish an insurgency from the population it operates in, developed by the French in Algeria in the 1950s and traded on a large scale in Vietnam in the 1960s. The standard work in the field is written by the French officer David Galuga, a book that McChyrstal stated that he had beside the cot. Counterinsurgency Warfare or COIN is a strategic concept that is based on an imaginary sequence order with three main phases. In Clearwater, the rebellion's armed forces turned and smoked nasa federal out from their base areas. In the ensuing Hold-phase, own-side establish a permanent nasa federal presence on the surface so as to prevent rebellion from coming back. Finally, in the third phase, Build, shall own forces and local allies build social institutions and thus win over the population's loyalty, that the Vietnam War was renamed the Hearts and Minds.
No international peace operation had previously applied the COIN concept, and although it gradually came to be used within ISAF, particularly in southern Afghanistan, it was McChyrstal advocated a full-scale transition to counterinsurgency across the board. This required both large troop reinforcements in the near term and a streamlining of warfare for a harder and targeted U.S. central control. President Obama's decision nasa federal in December 2009 marked a second "surge" for it in Iraq, but now to Afghanistan nasa federal and with the objective of eighteen months put down the rebellion enough to Afghan government forces could take over and gradually relieve ISAF, the phase whose outcomes are gradually emerging.
What did the switch to COIN for the Swedish Afghanistan policy and Afghanistan nasa federal Stake? On the ground, it was a question about a decisive shift. From that largely have been able to operate at its head was the Swedes tightly controlled by senior staffs and new operational orders works. The Swedes would, like all other contingents, adapt to the demands insurgency posed on the tactical behavior. The time when the rules of engagement prescribed that man pulled out in an impact was over. But what was presented as this both principle and concrete decisive shift for the Swedish public and the parliament that constantly had to consider the Swedish Afghanistan Stake?
On 22 October 2009, the government presented the annual bill on the continued Swedish participation in ISAF. Here, the Government describes the contents of McChyrstalrapporten, but without mentioning its main point, the transition to Counterinsurgency Warfare. The new approach presented instead as a transition from military to civilian center of gravity, with the focus on reducing civilian casualties and win the Afghan people respect and trust: "Several of the proposals highlighted in the report - focus on population, Afghan ownership, capacity building, need of international troops visibility, cultural understanding, reintegration schemes and coordination - can be described as key to the success of the operation in Afghanistan and is also in very well with the way the Swedish force works. " The government manages this with the rhetorical trick of not only describe COIN in terms of a peace operation, but also produce the forthcoming strategy shift as something of a Swedish version of the American effort.
The Bill November 4, 2010, when the strategy shift was implemented and the Swedish forces were in the Hold phase west of Mazar-e-Sharif, the Government describes the major troop reinforcements have already arrived or are on their way to Afghanistan. It is mentioned nasa federal now that the Swedish nasa federal unit against a greater Afghan security responsibility to a greater extent will conduct operations with the Afghan security forces throughout the northern surgical site. But the implications of this are not detailed and the concept of COIN still treated not. The same applies for the bill from 9 November 2011. Here is spoken now about "a large number of security operations" that ISAF able to implement thanks to the massive troop reinforcements that it was possible in the opponents key areas, also in the Swedish-Finnish area of responsibility "in order to protect nasa federal civilians and reduce resistance influence." Still missing, however, references to Counterinsurgency Warfare and thus to the actual strategic context.