Mike Yon now says that we must speed our exit from Afghanistan. Fair enough, but you’ve got to own your cheerleading, buddy.

CNAS and the LA Times fail to give you a list of the best war films ever created. My list probably will bug you. But it’s my list. Dracula, Frankenstein, King Kong and the rest visit LoD today. Boo!

Ryan Evans sticks his jim-willy in the mousetrap. Snap! Line of Departure provides a COIN primer to the COIN gurus. Ouch!

A guest post by Mike Few that could’ve been titled “Carl Prine Is Wrong!” Is the COIN industry now too big to fail? And how much will it take to keep propping it up?

Barno, Exum and Irvine. Sounds like a trio of DC ambulance chasers but they’re really the authors of a new CNAS report. Exum shines through.

My final thoughts about David H. Ucko’s retorts. Anything to avoid more kebab and Fanta!

I like David Ucko’s scholarship. But I dislike this essay. He’s too quick to dismiss important research into the Iraq “Surge.” His latest Prism piece in today’s LoD.

Carl actually reads! Books, too! What LoD is following.

I loves me some Bernard Finel, but Dr Smarty Pants from National War College is wrong about one thing. Today in LoD, the media, Congress and celebrity generals.

Uber-brainy defense intellectual Bernard Finel arrives at LoD to dish on the Pentagon, former SecDef Bob Gates and the F-22 program. How do we develop a strategic culture at DoD?