Counterinsurgency - Suddenly Out of Favor?

There is a push among leading officers of the Army to abandon counterinsurgency or COIN in favor of something called "full spectrum operations" or FSO.  Many generals did not embrace COIN as a major training requirement nor did they recognize that we had two counterinsurgency fights on our hands in Iraq and Afghanistan until it was way too late.  Now, with the withdrawal of combat troops from Iraq (so they say) and a looming deadline for withdrawal from Afghanistan (next summer) it appears these leading military visionaries are ready to dump COIN and move on to doing something worthwhile! Like getting ready for the next war.  What happened to the war we are fighting now?

Read more in "U.S military training adjusts its aim", LA Times, September 26, 2010.