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... who is the Al Qaeda number two guy that planned 9/11. And he talked ..." He then speculated that "If you ask Americans ... Crimes Act and the Anti-Torture Act; (The New York Times, October 4, 2007, p. 42 (hereafter NYT Oct. 4).) The CIA, and other government ...

Blog entry - Oct 31 2007 - 1:30pm - 215 comments - 0 attachments

... make counterinsurgency part of the zeitgeist.” [11]   The manual “has become a coffee-table staple in ... [10] www.amazon.com , accessed by the author on 7 October 2011. [11] Colin H Kahl., “COIN of the Realm:  ... Revolution to Apocalypse , 2nd edition.  Potomac Books, Inc., 2005. [21] David J. Kilcullen, “Three Pillars of ...

Journal Article - Dec 27 2011 - 5:10am - 42 comments

... performances of rehearsed sheet-music orchestra. [11] Whether one draws Design tools from the system-centric or post-modern ... No: DTRA01-03-D-0017, Defense Threat Reduction Agency, 31 October 2006) 1. “But once that story is interpreted and systematized ...

Journal Article - Sep 21 2011 - 8:18am - 38 comments

... Dr. Alfred H. Paddock, Jr., was born February 11, 1937, in Moscow, Idaho, and raised in Bogalusa, Louisiana. He holds a BA ... completed a 31-year U.S. Army career as a colonel in October, 1988. He is a graduate of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff ...

Journal Article - Jun 17 2010 - 7:02pm - 16 comments

... The thesis enjoyed a certain audience in America until 9/11, after which U.S. elites became fixated on the Islamist threat and, in the ... the CDU and was elected Chancellor in 2005.  But in October 2009, as the global economic crisis was already under way, Merkel ...

Journal Article - Nov 29 2011 - 8:32am - 4 comments

... insurgency in Africa a well done authority stated if 11% of the population supported the insurgents, then the State wouldn't succeed ... operation did not deter or inhibit Al Qaeda, however. On October 12, 2000, two Arabs piloted a skiff toward a U.S. Navy destroyer, the ...

Blog entry - Jul 5 2011 - 8:00am - 98 comments - 0 attachments

... states what we have is an American way of battle. [11]   Echevarria believes that until the American way of war develops the ... on Iraq in 1998, Kosovo in 1999, Afghanistan beginning in October 2001, and Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003. [9] Gaffney, ...

Journal Article - Nov 17 2011 - 8:17am - 8 comments

... society is liable for the third in response to September 11, 2001. To turn this operational failure around, the U.S. military instrument ... been active in the remote province of Farah since early October. There have been five reported raids in Farah since the beginning of ...

Journal Article - Dec 11 2010 - 9:53am - 67 comments

... United States’ multiple interventions following 9/11, the promise and possibilities of such a course should be self-evident to ... Dark Art of Interrogation,” The Atlantic , October 2003, ... in the night, was to read some of Jim Corbett's man-eater books. You read those accounts and it makes a lasting impression because of ...

Blog entry - Aug 27 2011 - 6:22am - 9 comments - 0 attachments

... within five years to expand to 100,000 schools serving 11 million children. (It is important to note that rural school in India are ... activities that disempower people (see my article, posted October 10, "Humanizing 'The Man'"). And "empowerment" can come in different ...

Journal Article - Oct 13 2010 - 1:39pm - 60 comments