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(6) Elaine M. Grossman, "Services Agree to Write Joint Doctrine for Counterinsurgency Ops," Inside the Pentagon, May 24, 2007, 1.

(7) Ibid.

(8) Air Force Doctrine Document (AFDD) 2, Operations and Organization (Washington, DC: Headquarters, Department of the Air Force, April 3, 2007), 2, available at <www.dtic.mil/doctrine/jel/ service_pubs/afdd2.pdf>.

(9) Ibid.

(10) When the word Soldiers is capitalized in this article, it is meant to refer to infantrymen of the U.S. Army (and usually the Marine Corps).

(11) See Robert H. Scales, "To Win the Long War," The Washington Times, October 10, 2006.

(12) FM 3-24, para. 1-67.

(13) See Joe Klein, "Good General, Bad Mission," Time, January 12, 2007, available at <www.time. com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1576838-1,00. html>.

(14) Linda Robinson, "Why More May Not Be Enough," U.S. News & World Report, January 14, 2007, available at <www.usnews.com/usnews/news/ articles/070114/22troops.htm>.

(15) See, for example, FM 3-0, Operations (Washington, DC: Headquarters, Department of the Army, June 2001), 4-13, available at <www.dtic. mil/doctrine/jel/service_pubs/fm3_0a.pdf>.

(16) Ibid., note 15.

(17) FM 3-21.10, The Infantry Rifle Company (Washington, DC: Headquarters, Department of the Army, July 27, 2006), "Introduction," available at <https://atiam.train.army.mil/soldierPortal/atia/ adlsc/view/public/23168-1/FM/3-21.10/chap1.htm>.

(18) As quoted in Paul Bedard, "Not a Bad War Book . . . for a Girl," U.S. News & World Report, April 23, 2007, 16.

(19) See discussion of airpower in FM 3-24, appendix E, para. E-5.

(20) See, for example, FM 3-24, para. 4-1.

(21) Ibid., A-5.

(22) "Most Iraqis Want U.S. Troops Out Within a Year," September 27, 2006, available at <www.worldpublicopinion.org/ pipa/articles/brmiddleeastnafricara/250. php?nid=&id=&pnt=250&lb=brme>.

(23) AFDD 1, Air Force Basic Doctrine (Washington, DC: Headquarters, Department of the Air Force, November 17, 2003), 41, available at .

(24) See, for example, FM 3-24, para. 6-27.

(25) National Security Council, Highlights of the Iraq Strategy Review, "Summary Briefing Slides," slide 8, January 2007, available at <www.whitehouse. gov/nsc/iraq/2007/iraq-strategy011007.pdf>.

(26) See Jeffrey Record, The American Way of War: Cultural Barriers to Successful Counterinsurgency, Cato Institute Policy Analysis No. 577 (Washington, DC: The Cato Institute, September 1, 2006), available at <www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa577.pdf>.

(27) Ibid., 5.

(28) See, for example, James S. Corum, Fighting the War on Terror: A Counterinsurgency Strategy (Osceola, WI: Zenith Press, 2007), chapter 2.

(29) Department of the Air Force, The Air Force Story (Washington, DC: Department of the Air Force, September 2006), 6, available at .

(30) Charles Townshend, ed., The Oxford History of Modern War (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000), 4.

(31) Anthony Smith, Machine Gun: The Story of the Men and the Weapon that Changed the Face of War (New York: St. Martin's Press, 2004), 164-165.

(32) Lee Kennett, The First Air War (New York: The Free Press, 1991), 221.

(33) See John T. Reed, "'Elite' military units: Army Airborne (paratroopers)," available at <http://www.johntreed.com/airborne.html>.

(34) Chris Hables Gray, Postmodern War: The New Politics of Conflict (New York: Guilford Press, 1997), 217.

(35) See "How to Predict the Future," Military History, April 2007, 23.

(36) Bing West and Eliot A. Cohen, "Our Only Hope," The Wall Street Journal, January 8, 2007, available at <www.sais-jhu.edu/insider/pdf/2007_ articles/cohen_wsj_010807.pdf>.

(37) See, for example, Phillip H. Gordon, "Air Power Won't Do It," The Washington Post, July 2006, A15.