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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 post - Oct 31 2007 - 2:30pm - 215 comments - 0 attachments

... Danny Chen, who took his own life in Afghanistan this past October after being physically and verbally abused by up to 8 fellow members of ... M. Schofield Address to the Corps of Cadets August 11, 1879 Carl: I don't think we've Carl: I don't think ...

Blog post - Dec 23 2011 - 1:44pm - 88 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 - 6:10am - 42 comments

... 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 - 9:17am - 9 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 - 9:18am - 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 - 8:02pm - 16 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 post - Jul 5 2011 - 9:00am - 98 comments - 0 attachments

... imperial boundaries were defined by military defeats. [11] Nor was the principle of destruction the only aspect of warfare in ... counterinsurgency campaigns by the Kuomintang, until October 1934, when the Central Committee decided to evacuate the area and seek ...

Journal Article - Jan 4 2012 - 4:25am - 14 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 - 10:53am - 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 ...

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