COIN Qualification Standards Established for Afghanistan

The DoD has established a checklist of essential counterinsurgency skills needed by troops deployed to Afghanistan.  They are called the "COIN Qualification Standards".  The standards are a list of nine major skill areas with roughly 52 sub tasks that will focus a units' training before they deploy to Afghanistan.  Read more in "COIN standards for Afghanistan approved", Marine Corps Times, December 2, 2010.