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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 post - Nov 16 2009 - 8:15pm - 8 comments - 0 attachments

... An Air Force officer tenders a letter of surrender. Editor's ... can too, but also can complete the combat ID and targeting picture with EODAS and laser-designation to take out a moving air defender or ...

Blog post - May 14 2012 - 4:55am - 41 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 - 12:30pm - 83 comments

... Military Needs More Disruptive Thinkers,” struck a chord like no other essay published recently in the Small Wars Journal ... as potential adversaries, has lost sight of the big picture.  We should be seeking to husband our fiscal resources and ...

Journal Article - Apr 9 2012 - 5:00am - 61 comments

... verbally abused by up to 8 fellow members of his platoon (a platoon he had been part of for less than 70 days), has brought to the ... like it came straight from a military writing guide? Picture me saying it as I roll my eyes and shake my head with a smile, makes it ...

Blog post - Dec 23 2011 - 1:44pm - 88 comments - 0 attachments

... 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 - 11:22pm - 120 comments

... Ambassador J.R. Bullington, once a foreign service officer serving in the CORDS program in Vietnam, argues that ... involved. The objective was to develop an accurate picture of the degree of actual control by each side of the populated rural ...

Journal Article - Mar 23 2012 - 9:00am - 21 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 - 6:54am - 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 - 4:24pm - 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 - 9:01pm - 73 comments