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Adding Less-Lethal Arrows to the Quiver for Counterinsurgency Air Operations
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Air & Space Power Journal
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July 1, 2008
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THE CONFLICT IN Iraq has enabled the war fighter to improve, and in some cases rewrite, many counter-insurgency (COIN) tactics, techniques, and procedures and has illustrated some gaps in our COIN capabilities. In this article, I explain one of those gaps in our weapons inventory and address how we resolved it to give Airmen two more weapons for supporting COIN operations. This discussion is as much about what we added to our inventory as how we ...
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