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Indiscipline or insubordination, they called into question the military doctrine that general mcchrystal championed. the favorite saying to a man with a hammer everything looks like a nail, we can t operate that way. we can t walk with only a hammer in our hands. this is something that takes a tremendous amount of understanding. what i m really telling people is the greatest risk we can accept is to lose the support of the people here. if the people are against us, we cannot be successful. what is counterinsurgency, c.o.i.n.? what is the strategy general mcchrystal is describing there. it s essentially the explosion of military objectives so they include all sorts of things we don t usually consider to be military things. things you can t usually achieve through military means. it means as general mcchrystal says you can t kill your way out of a place like afghanistan. you can t kill your way to victory. instead the goal is to secure population centers, set up afghan governance and ....