SysAd-volution
Tuesday, December 26, 2006 at 2:30PM ARTICLE: Commanders Bound for Iraq Tailor Strategies to a Fragmented Nation, By Greg Jaffe, Wall Street Journal, December, 26, 2006
Ryan Schieffer wrote:
Dr. Barnett,
Greg Jaffe had a piece you may have seen this morning about Marines applying
the new COIN strategy and focusing on economics (microlending) and utilities
(sewers) in place of traditional concerns.
It was "more of the same" in terms of a sysadmin example, but one of the
clearest recent ones, and on the front page.
A couple representative quotes:
In recent weeks, the Marines preparing to go to al Anbar have brought in economic-development experts to talk with them about microlending as a means of jump-starting small businesses. Microlenders provide small loans to would-be entrepreneurs who can't secure traditional financing. Loan recipients typically open shops or craft businesses, helping to bolster the local economy...The Marines' focus on economic development in al Anbar reflects the Army and Marine Corps' new counterinsurgency doctrine, which stresses that in such wars 80% of the effort should be along political and economic lines and only 20% should be military.
Tom says:
Further evolution of the SysAdmin force and function. As expected, a product of desperation over previous failures.
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