{"id":6102,"date":"2015-06-19T19:17:40","date_gmt":"2015-06-20T00:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hcstx.org\/?p=6102"},"modified":"2015-06-19T19:17:40","modified_gmt":"2015-06-20T00:17:40","slug":"the-missed-counter-insurgency-lessons-in-lone-survivor-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2015\/06\/19\/the-missed-counter-insurgency-lessons-in-lone-survivor-film\/","title":{"rendered":"The Missed Counter-Insurgency Lessons in Lone Survivor (Film)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/06\/ls.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6103\" src=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/06\/ls.jpg\" alt=\"LS\" width=\"164\" height=\"164\" \/><\/a><\/h3>\n<p><em>(Normally, we start the year with our \u201cMost Intriguing Event of the Year\u201d. But since <\/em>Lone Survivor<em> hit theaters across the country on January 10th, we\u2019re devoting this week to that topic.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>To read all of our <\/em>Lone Survivor<em> posts, <a href=\"http:\/\/onviolence.com\/?e=230\">please click here<\/a>. The most important post is &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.onviolence.com\/?e=762\">A List of the Mistakes and Differences Between <\/a><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.onviolence.com\/?e=762\">Lone Survivor <\/a><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.onviolence.com\/?e=762\">(Film), <\/a><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.onviolence.com\/?e=762\">Lone Survivor<\/a><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.onviolence.com\/?e=762\"> (Book) and Reality<\/a>&#8221; so read that first if you are new to the blog or this topic.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>If a counter-insurgency lesson happens on a hill-side in Afghanistan, and Americans don\u2019t care, did anyone ever really learn it?<\/p>\n<p>As the most popular memoir and film about Afghanistan, <em>Lone Survivor<\/em> now has the subtle distinction of being the single most popular piece of media about Afghanistan&#8230;period. <strong>(To everyone who comments, \u201cWhy are you still writing about this?\u201d That\u2019s one reason why.)<\/strong> Since <em>Lone Survivor<\/em> has lots of subtle (and not-so-subtle) counter-insurgency lessons embedded in the narrative, the book and the movie will have a profound effect on American\u2019s understanding of counter-insurgency warfare.<\/p>\n<p>Most viewers of <em>Lone Survivor<\/em> won\u2019t realize that sound counter-insurgency practices actually saved Marcus Luttrell\u2019s life on that hillside on that fateful June day. While I don\u2019t fault Peter Berg for trying to tell a tight story centered almost entirely on the battle, this focus skews Americans\u2019 understanding of COIN. Worse, some of Berg\u2019s decisions (like the final battle) will irrevocably mislead Americans on how politics works in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>Read the Remainder at \u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/onviolence.com\/?e=765\">On Violence.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Stay Armed and Stay Dangerous!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Normally, we start the year with our \u201cMost Intriguing Event of the Year\u201d. But since Lone Survivor hit theaters across the country on January 10th, we\u2019re devoting this week to that topic. To read all of our Lone Survivor posts, please click here. The most important post is &#8220;A List of the Mistakes and Differences&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1583,1286],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6102"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}