- SWJ Korea News and Opinion Update
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... China's twenty-nine-day incursion into Vietnam in February 1979 was a response to what China considered to be a collection of ... and security missions)? I never did Korea. I've got 1:50K maps and really wonder how Strykers would survive in those narrow valleys ...
Blog entry - Nov 24 2010 - 5:53am - 40 comments - 0 attachments
- UPDATED: The strange case of Raymond Davis, a 'strategic corporal' in Pakistan
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... particular day. My interest is more along these lines: 1. If he was there as a spy with Pakistani govt aware, then why did the govt go ... nukes to Iran, ex-officials say Appeared in USA Today, February 27, 2004 The clearest evidence of the Iran link came in January ...
Blog entry - Feb 21 2011 - 2:00pm - 95 comments - 0 attachments
- To Design or Not to Design (Part Five)
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... duty Infantry Officer in the US Army. A veteran of OIF 1 and OIF 6, Ben is currently attending the School for Advanced Military ... Liberation Army Literature and Arts Publishing House, February 1999). Available online and only a few hundred pages- their criticism ...
Journal Article - Apr 15 2011 - 4:58am - 35 comments
- Prine on Abrams and Primary Sources
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... Myer for 'trick or treat,' always enjoyed hitting Quarter 1 -- he gave the escorts a shot of bourbon. No one complained, everyone drank ... of Singapore, after the British colony surrendered on 15 February 1942 during the Second World War. Sook Ching was later extended to ...
Blog entry - Jul 1 2011 - 5:06pm - 59 comments - 0 attachments
- The US Army's Shift to Irregular Warfare
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... really changed concerning the areas they point out? 1. First, he claims that actual changes to MOS training courses to reflect ... "The Mexican military disabled an IED in Oaxaca, Mexico in February. Another IED blew up in Nuevo Leon last month." Then the simple ...
Journal Article - Apr 7 2010 - 1:49pm - 52 comments
- How the U.S. military fell in love with 'Three Cups of Tea'
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... brigades had him visit their units prior to deployments to Afghanistan. In a sense, Mortenson became almost like Galula's text did for ... by the Briggs plan and that when Templer arrived in February 52 he capitalized on a framework that was already set to defeat the ... attempted to shift/ compliment our use of DoD assets by (1) enhancing/complementing these with new DoS, etc., attributes and ...
Blog entry - Apr 21 2011 - 2:31pm - 48 comments - 0 attachments
- DOD IG Clears LTG Caldwell (Updated)
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... ginned up by your star reporter Michael Hastings in late February." Pentagon Clears 3-Star General of ... professional liars? Or believing what they say?" Rule 1: Never trust the Government The greatest weakness isn't our government ...
Blog entry - Jul 28 2011 - 4:35pm - 16 comments - 0 attachments
- LTC Gian Gentile on War, Strategy, and the Future
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... U.S. Army's new strategy in Iraq—launched in February 2007, along with a surge of 25,000 additional American ... and the Future Here's my 2 cents on Iraq: 1. Great maneuver victory followed by the stupidity of ignoring the basics of ... forces that are presently dispensing scunion in Iraq and Afghanistan. One other point: thanks to LTC Gentile for pointing out that a ...
Blog entry - Jun 25 2008 - 7:01pm - 8 comments - 0 attachments
- Counterinsurgency Field Manual: Afghanistan Edition
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... Edition by Nathaniel Fick and John Nagl in the January / February 2009 issue of Foreign Policy . For the past five years, the ... optimistic number. South Viet Nam in 1967-69 had over 1 Million Allied troops in a nation of about 16M people in an area of around ...
Blog entry - Jan 5 2009 - 12:51pm - 3 comments - 0 attachments


