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Colonel Gian Gentiles 2008 article Misreading the Surge in first exposed a growing rift among military intellectuals that has since been playing out in strategy sessions at the Pentagon, in classrooms at military academies, and on the pages of the . While the past years of U.S. strategy in Afghanistan have been dominated by the doctrine of counterinsurgency (COIN), Gentile and a small group of dissident officers and defense analysts have questioned the necessity and efficacy of COINessentially armed nation-buildingin achieving the United States limited core policy objective in Afghanistan: the destruction of Al Qaeda.