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... Disruptive thinkers: the way to reinvigorate a senseless bureaucracy or a threat to the establishment?  ... is always possible and is more dangerous than failure to apply at all. Gian, an entrepreneur might suggest your Scout ...

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

... 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 post - May 8 2007 - 5:35pm - 16 comments - 0 attachments

... A review of Lewis Sorley's biography on General Westmoreland. ... Once he set the course in '56 we were on the path to failure. Yes, there were various off-ramps missed by a long list of leaders ...

Blog post - May 22 2012 - 7:29am - 22 comments - 0 attachments

... challenges of the 21st century. In order for this to be a productive vice destructive force, young leaders must abandon the idea of ... in his 2007 Armed Forces Journal article on the “failure of generalship” in Iraq. He explained, “[i]t is ...

Journal Article - May 10 2012 - 4:55am - 16 comments

... 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 - 8:37pm - 83 comments

... 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 post - Jan 12 2011 - 8:44am - 71 comments - 0 attachments

... 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 post - Jul 18 2010 - 7:08am - 66 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 post - Sep 11 2009 - 4:43am - 63 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 post - Jul 1 2011 - 6:06pm - 59 comments - 0 attachments

... 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 post - Oct 31 2007 - 2:41pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments