"I wrote about his operations there in my book The Gamble. I am traveling so I don’t have it with me, but I remember him telling his soldiers that understanding counterinsurgency really wasn’t hard: “Every time you disrespect an Iraqi, you’re working for the enemy.” They even had “Customer Satisfaction Forms” that detainees were asked to fill out upon release: Were you treated well? How was the food? What could we do better?"

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-02-20/trumps-picks-retired-general-mcmaster-national-security-adviser

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3531613&forum_id=2#32662470)

"There is no such thing as counter insurgency warfare. There is only warfare. The stronger force wins, the weaker force loses, unless a large outside power (the Soviet Union or the United States State Department) has its thumb on the scales. In warfare, you don’t worry all that much about hearts and minds, for if you have to choose between being loved and being feared, you choose to be feared. If choosing to be loved was a realistic option, it would not be war. It would be social work.

If every time someone shoots at you from a girl’s school, you incinerate the school with girls and teachers inside, people stop shooting at you from girl’s schools. Or, more likely, the girls decide to skip attending school for the duration of the war.

The reason the Taliban has defeated the US in Afghanistan is that the US forces are infested with lawyers, the political commissars of the State Department, while the Taliban is not. The Taliban has the close equivalent of lawyers, priests, but their priests are interested in winning, they are warrior priests, while the State Department, the Blue Empire, is more interested in defeating the Pentagon, the Red Empire, than defeating the Taliban. If one side is fighting by police rules, and the other fighting by warrior rules, of course the warriors will defeat the police."

http://blog.jim.com/war/dumping-flynn/

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3531613&forum_id=2#32662477)

Keep in mind of course that COIN isn't all the same--for example, if you've read Trinquier's Modern Warfare (which I assume you haven't, because you're busy seeing what 'Jim' is up to), then you'd know that there are certain particularly effective but not very PC COIN-style doctrines.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3531613&forum_id=2#32663588)

But the evidence in the OP is hardly enough for me to get worried.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3531613&forum_id=2#32664756)