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... and Tips on Non Kinetic Actions - most certainly worth a thousand words. 1st Battalion, 5th Marines ... barber comment in part. Yes, the Taliban could use this picture in an anti-western propaganda campaign but we will end up going too far ...

Blog entry - Nov 16 2009 - 7:15pm - 8 comments - 0 attachments

... I offer an intellectual olive branch of sorts. There is a reason hardly any of these Design concepts will ever enter Army doctrine, or ... in it's B2C2WG processes---was not a pretty picture. Honestly the last time I saw a fully functioning battle staff was ...

Journal Article - Aug 7 2011 - 11:30am - 79 comments

... How Afghanistan Ends: A Political-Military Path to Peace by Linda Robinson Download ... attention to some of the glaring inconsistencies in that picture (of unfortunate loss of "equilibrium" due to American intervention). ...

Journal Article - Dec 2 2010 - 10:22pm - 120 comments

... Counterinsurgency as a Whole of Government Approach: Notes on the British Army Field Manual ... through a distorting lens. So it always saw a distorted picture without a background against which to adjust it, as admitted by Flynn. ...

Journal Article - Jan 26 2011 - 5:54am - 79 comments

... A Tale of Two Design Efforts (and why they both failed in Afghanistan) ... is exploring a system holistically (looking at the big picture and refusing to get dragged down into the reductionist details that ...

Journal Article - Jul 7 2011 - 3:24pm - 75 comments

... A Civilian's Comprehensive Critique of the U.S. Army/Marine Corps ... detractors, even its fiercest critics acknowledge that it is regarded as "transcendent" and has "become the defining characteristic of ... power-doms that has little to do with the larger picture. What should be most important to us (long before we start discussing ...

Journal Article - May 5 2011 - 8:01pm - 73 comments

... fighting season. For some analysts, this would seem to be a large military risk, taken for purely domestic political benefit. Obama ... are interests globally and how this region fits into that picture. Nothing we say or do will change the perceived interests of all ...

Blog entry - Jun 23 2011 - 12:30pm - 64 comments - 0 attachments

... Wanat (VIII): An Army Report Finds a Major COIN Failure - Tom Ricks, Best Defense at Foreign Policy . ... to discourage you. And I rather suspect that in the bigger picture he succeeded more than he here admits. Gentile says "I am not ...

Blog entry - Jul 23 2009 - 11:06am - 52 comments - 0 attachments

... with overwhelming military force has galvanized a profound re-thinking of the concept of war, the process of peace, and the challenges of failing states. This is evident in national strategies, doctrines, policies, manuals and the ... activity.2 NATOs unclassified briefing gives even clearer picture. Taliban have a shadow government in 33 out of 34 provinces of ...

Journal Article - Mar 16 2010 - 3:49pm - 44 comments

... Philippines a Model for Counterinsurgency by Jim Michaels, USA Today. BLUF: "Though not ... the decades of neglect once Americans are no longer in the picture? Perhaps most important, will the Philippine Government ever find ...

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