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... civilian authorities more explicitly. While I don't think a serving officer should publicly criticize civil authorities, there is a more ... but praise for the creators of the plan. Even when the failure is as monumental as Abu Ghraib the most sever consequences for a ...

Blog entry - May 8 2007 - 4:35pm - 16 comments - 0 attachments

... for today's COIN campaigns and you seem to identify a special kind of lesson or warning than the ones that influenced the ... problem with the COIN narrative that developed at least in US Army circles since the end of the Vietnam War. It was, and is, premised ... Council (not subject to Senate confirmation) and by the failure of Congress to exercise its responsibilities to oversee the design ...

Journal Article - Dec 14 2010 - 7:37pm - 83 comments

... respects, the war against the Taliban is no different to a war on gangs such as the Hells Angels. Both rely on a breakdown in the ... colleague LTC Paul Yingling should consider writing "A Failure of Generalship, Version 2" in this regard. gian Re: Taliban and ...

Blog entry - Jul 18 2010 - 6:08am - 66 comments - 0 attachments

... that's just got barely the adequate number of troops a chance to work. The next assessment is in July. That'll have given them about ... ago. There has been no progress. Afghanistan is a failure. Of course the counterinsurgency "strategy" isn't working. It can't. ...

Blog entry - Jan 12 2011 - 7:44am - 71 comments - 0 attachments

... Carl Prine at "Prine's Line of Departure" has a very important post on the history of the Vietnam War , and specifically ... this time winning it. It to be sure is a moving yarn of failure, then reinvention, then victory, but it does not come close to ...

Blog entry - Jul 1 2011 - 5:06pm - 59 comments - 0 attachments

... years of war have we have learned many hard lessons at a very high price, and the ideas attributed to General Krulak are now ... author of that most important article of two years ago, "A Failure of Generalship" would find fault with one of our most ablest generals ...

Blog entry - Sep 11 2009 - 3:43am - 63 comments - 0 attachments

... forces that have been steadily driving it towards becoming a separate class, distinct in its ideology and culture, have been accelerated. ... by the end of the 20th century that it had been a failure, reasoning that it had failed to truly constrain political actors, had ...

Journal Article - Dec 16 2011 - 4:42am - 15 comments

... George Casey , Chief of Staff of the Army, answers a question concerning his opinion on " A Failure in Generalship " by Lieutenant Colonel Paul Yingling , May 2007 ...

Blog entry - Oct 31 2007 - 1:41pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments

... A Third COIN Course of Action A Question of Command: ... harm he did to the local Washington, DC economy in 2009-2010, and blame him for creating the conditions necessary to finally ... that paints Westmoreland as the single point of failure for America's loss and Abrams on the other hand as the oracle, and ...

Journal Article - Jul 21 2010 - 3:49pm - 43 comments

... Review There is perhaps no better measure of the failure of American strategy over the past decade than the fact that in both ... core American political objectives and then defining a cost-effective strategy to achieve them. If it is to avoid repeating the ...

Blog entry - Nov 22 2011 - 9:16am - 15 comments - 0 attachments