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10 January COIN Update

... Department of State On-the-Record Iraq PRT Briefing - Ramadi Embedded Provincial Reconstruction Team Leader ... Reconstruction Team Leader Dr. John Jones, and Baghdad 7 Embedded Provincial Reconstruction Team Leader John Smith On Reconstruction ...

Blog entry - Jan 10 2008 - 2:00am - 0 comments - 0 attachments

DoD’s Combat Exclusion Policies Limit Commanders and Strain Our Current Forces

... a result, the “Risk Rule” was rescinded on 13 January 1994 by then Secretary of Defense Les Aspin and was replaced by the ... are off the charts. They’re doing great.” [7] Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special ... placed upon our all-volunteer force by the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. Defense Secretary Gates said during a speech at Duke ...

Journal Article - Nov 20 2011 - 7:34am - 46 comments

Iraq Interview and Briefing

... Interview with Commander of Multi-National Forces, Iraq , General David Petraeus on 7 January 2008. Colonel Charles Flynn, Commander of the 1st ...

Blog entry - Jan 8 2008 - 7:38am - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Philippines a Model for Counterinsurgency

... run some numbers for perspective on how many hours in a 7 day/168 hour week the average person (a non-governmental employee who is not ... Value' by Michael E. Porter and Mark R. Kramer in the January to February 2011 issue. The Economist offers a critique of the idea in ...

Blog entry - Mar 30 2011 - 6:45am - 41 comments - 0 attachments

Lopsided Wars of Peace: America’s Anemic Ability to Project Civilian Power

... security environment. Recent Coalition efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan show that both are interdependent and require simultaneous ... , accessed 7 February, 2011. [ii] U.S. General Accounting Office. ... http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d0839.pdf (accessed 16 January, 2010), 3. [iii] Max Boot, The Savage Wars of Peace: ...

Journal Article - Dec 12 2011 - 5:54am - 3 comments

What Really Happened at Wanat

... done a bunch of tours, I have a bunch of valor awards from Iraq, and LTG Caldwell recently invoked my unit as a prime example of ... Campbell offered this about the valley site on page 7 of his rebuttal: "e. The TF Bayonet.CJTF-101 AR 15-6 ROI and the JAGMAN ... have died since Operation Moshtarak was initiated in January. Nearly 70 of these were well trained, equipped, and resourced ...

Blog entry - Jul 2 2010 - 2:19pm - 36 comments - 0 attachments

Misreading the History of the Iraq War

... live among their people to protect them. With this 24/7 support, they could get rid of the terrorists of Al Qaeda-Iraq for good. The ... Our BCT controlled southern Baghdad from May 2003 - January 2004. We spread our companies/batteries/troops out in key locations ...

Blog entry - Mar 10 2008 - 4:21pm - 12 comments - 0 attachments

SECDEF Gates Meets with COCOMs, USMC Makes Case...

... summit. Internal documents indicate the January 7 morning session was scheduled to cover current defense actions and ...

Blog entry - Jan 11 2009 - 2:33pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Contractor Challenges in Iraq

... was on the Victory Base Complex, but geographically about 7 miles from the Division Main (D-Main). 3/101 had a Brigade-level staff, or an ... September 2009, the government extended the contract until January 2010, and in January 2010 they extended the contract until March 2010. ...

Blog entry - Aug 6 2011 - 3:57pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Countering Insurgency In South Asia: Three Approaches

... part of Pakistan’s national security calculus. [7] FOIN in the 1980s was directed against the Soviet occupation and was a ... 12, 2001. The second stage of operations was from January 2002 with a modest footprint of 4000 troops that gradually grew to a ...

Journal Article - Sep 23 2011 - 5:19am - 2 comments