Garrett Wood

		

				 
  	
		 		

			

	LT Garrett Ryan Wood is a Naval Gunfire Liason Officer at 5th Anglico in Okinawa who served an OIF deployment aboard a DDG in 2009 and recently completed a deployment to OEF.  He  graduated with majors in History and Political Economy from Hillsdale College.

			
		

		

	

	


  

  

  

      


  
  

    

    
  
  
      

      


  

    	  
  

                
War: Each of Us Students

  

  
  

                
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Posted On August 27, 2012 04:30 AM | Comments(6)

  

  
  

                

	There is a danger in the empirical mode of reasoning that it will lead us to think of a thousand locals or twenty counterinsurgents as homogenous units of human being. 


  

		  
  

                
Counting Grains of Sand: Metrics in War

  

  
  

                
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Posted On January 10, 2012 07:28 AM | Comments(1)

  

  
  

                

	The temptation to quantify war is strong, but often limits our understanding by overestimating our ability to measure progress


  

	  





  

    	  
  

                
Warrior Know Thyself

  

  
  

                
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Posted On December 24, 2011 06:02 AM | Comments(1)

  

  
  

                

	What foundation does our war effort sit on?


  

		  
  

                
The Limits of our Ability to Practice War

  

  
  

                
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Posted On August 23, 2011 07:33 AM | Comments(5)

  

  
  

                

	Have we exhausted our ways and means to engage in war?