High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Lieutenant General Samuel Vaughan Wilson (born 1923), aka "General Sam", completed his active military career in the fall of 1977, having divided his service almost equally between special operations and intelligence assignments. He perhaps is best known today for his successful tenure as President of Hampden-Sydney College from 1992–2000 and earlier tour as Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency from May 1976-August 1977; for his foundational work in doctrine for small wars down at the lower end of the spectrum of conflict (low intensity conflict), where he coined the term "counterinsurgency" (COIN); and for facilitating the drafting and passage of the Nunn-Cohen Amendment to the Goldwater-Nichols Act creating the US Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) and the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict (ASD/SOLIC). He is also credited for helping to create Delta Force, the U.S....