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... Ben's essay has sparked a great deal of discussion and debate.  I plan to continue this debate in a series of essays from our ... on a ship is probably more effective than the O-6 with 30 who simply retires on a beach in Hawaii. This is the type of insular, ...

Journal Article - Apr 5 2012 - 4:36am - 94 comments

... FM 3-0 ( Operations ), FM 3-4 ( Counterinsurgency ) and Council member LTC Gian Gentile's view on both - Standing Athwart ... Gentile, though, FM 3-0 doesn't really matter, because for all intensive purposes, FM 3-24: Counterinsurgency has become the operations ...

Blog post - Feb 28 2008 - 7:00am - 4 comments - 0 attachments

... critics acknowledge that it is regarded as "transcendent" and has "become the defining characteristic of the...new way of war." This ... Critique Except that the case evidence over the last 30 years supports 3-24 pretty strongly, and takes most of the wind of out ...

Journal Article - May 5 2011 - 9:01pm - 73 comments

... A primer to help move past COIN, CT, FID, SFA and start talking strategy to confront today's problems ... and this technology-led Global Revolution will take only 30-odd years. No single generation has witnessed so much change in a single ...

Blog post - Dec 6 2011 - 10:05am - 68 comments - 0 attachments

... Jason Thomas explores the romance of COIN theory and where it has gotten us in Afghanistan, suggesting instead we follow the ... that it does work. Dr. Paul and his colleagues studied 30 recent resolved insurgencies and analyzed “good” and “bad” COIN ...

Journal Article - Mar 13 2012 - 11:56am - 35 comments

... Martin offers his thoughts on the rewrite of FM 3-24 and more realistic and sustainable COIN efforts. ... systems at one’s disposal will result in either a 30% support or a 20% support. One should aim for the 30% (in my example) ...

Journal Article - Mar 12 2012 - 5:02am - 24 comments

... says it all when it comes to the nature of the publication and I quote... "The FM is designed to fill a doctrinal gap" and "that every ... ~a half day for ~few hundred, broken into groups of ~30) to discuss their perspective in some detail, then that would be something ...

Blog post - Dec 2 2010 - 4:07pm - 34 comments - 0 attachments

... 13, courtesy of WPR.  Thanks to Judah, Hampton, and all.  And thanks, Bob. Guest post by Robert C. Jones: ... comment... Where the hell have I been for the last 30 years? I actually thought that every President and Secretary of State since ...

Blog post - Feb 4 2011 - 5:19pm - 90 comments - 0 attachments

... Have FST and CSTs teams pushed the limits of the female exclusion in combat ... she was in a time warp. She thought she had dropped back 30 years in time to when this debate raged in Norway. It is a mote point today. ...

Journal Article - Nov 20 2011 - 8:34am - 46 comments

... but I hope that readers will click through to the link and comment here to discuss his work.  The thesis can also be downloaded ... Frente a la Delincuencia Organizada,” April 30, 2009, http://www.pgr.gob.mx/prensa/documentos.asp . [9] Sara ...

Blog post - Feb 11 2012 - 10:26am - 18 comments - 0 attachments