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Journal Article - Aug 10 2010 - 10:17am - 25 comments

... to free themselves from the influence of the state. A wide variety of criminal gangs are waging war amongst themselves and against ... and community variables. I'd be glad to look at your work up on Zaganiyah. v/r John Re: Criminal Insurgency in ...

Journal Article - Feb 13 2010 - 10:09am - 15 comments

... importance to Small Wars Journal readers. We, as a nation, are having a crisis of honor. Last week the Attorney General ... accuse patriotic Americans of supporting the enemy? Look, Conservative, Americans are tired of this nonsense. Americans see ...

Blog entry - Oct 31 2007 - 1:30pm - 215 comments - 0 attachments

... A primer to help move past COIN, CT, FID, SFA and start talking strategy to ... to start thinking about strategy.  Perhaps, if we look at our own history, see that the United States is still a revolution in ...

Blog entry - Dec 6 2011 - 9:05am - 68 comments - 0 attachments

... A counterinsurgency strategy based on the now-famous Field Manual 3-24, written ... of cartel violence.  A number of scholars look at the mayhem in northern Mexico and see an insurgency.  Often they ...

Journal Article - Dec 27 2011 - 5:10am - 42 comments

... UPDATE : 21 Feb 2011 According to a just-released article in the Washington Post , U.S. officials have ... an actual example. Till then, believe it if you wish and look it up if you wish.. About Raymond, I have always thought he is ...

Blog entry - Feb 21 2011 - 2:00pm - 95 comments - 0 attachments

... armies can defeat local insurgencies, we can look back for lessons.  They key insight is not that COIN failed to live ... parody the belief that the only useful tool in the box was a hammer, this is the kind of sentence you would write. Unfortunately, the ...

Blog entry - Dec 6 2011 - 7:07am - 48 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 ... rather than Counter Insurgency. Those who look at the past six months of operations in Afghanistan with an experienced ...

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

... The killing of Osama bin Laden is a satisfying triumph for Americans and the U.S. government. It would have been ... will now likely melt away. Pakistan will have to look to China, its last friend, for the support it will need to survive. ...

Blog entry - May 2 2011 - 7:58am - 60 comments - 0 attachments

... all-volunteer military. Raising an Army is not merely a matter of labor economics - finding the right combination of wages, benefits ... to reconsider the wisdom of the all-volunteer force. I look forward to the always superb commentary by SWJ readers on this debate, ...

Journal Article - Jul 9 2010 - 8:52am - 46 comments