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Waterboarding is Torture... Period (Links Updated # 9)

... importance to Small Wars Journal readers. We, as a nation, are having a crisis of honor. Last week the Attorney General ... between humanity and hatred. It would leave you to question the meaning of what it is to be an American. We live at a time ...

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

A Question of Command

... A Question of Command: Counterinsurgency from the Civil War to Iraq SWJ ...

Journal Article - Oct 10 2009 - 3:28pm - 5 comments

A Question of Super-Empowerment

... WikiLeaks, Media, and Policy: A Question of Super-Empowerment by Adam Elkus and Captain Crispin ...

Journal Article - Sep 29 2010 - 6:01am - 18 comments

Design Theory and the Military’s Understanding of Our Complex World

... I offer an intellectual olive branch of sorts. There is a reason hardly any of these Design concepts will ever enter Army doctrine, or ... than in the psychologies of Machiavelli and Hobbes. The question, one might pose, is whether postmodern social science offers any ...

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

What They Are Reading: 'A Question of Command'

... The New York Times has more on A Question of Command: Counterinsurgency from the Civil War to Iraq by Dr. ...

Blog entry - Jan 5 2011 - 3:57am - 1 comment - 0 attachments

DoD’s Combat Exclusion Policies Limit Commanders and Strain Our Current Forces

... task force to which she was attached triggered an IED. In a press release, U.S. Army Special Operations Command (USASOC) stated that ... friends in Afghanistan and Iraq. You ask a legitimate question, though. Why bring this up now? 1. FM 3-24 is in the process of ...

Journal Article - Nov 20 2011 - 7:34am - 46 comments

How Afghanistan Ends

... How Afghanistan Ends: A Political-Military Path to Peace by Linda Robinson Download ... Speaking of strategic depth, I've asked this question several times in the past but have yet to receive an answer. How ...

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

Army Worries about 'Toxic Leaders' in Ranks

... in Ranks by Greg Jaffe, Washington Post . BLUF: "A major U.S. Army survey of leadership and morale found that more than 80 ... senior rater has asked me about it as the first or second question during counseling. My performance should matter, not what ideology or ...

Blog entry - Jun 26 2011 - 6:33am - 101 comments - 0 attachments

To Design or Not to Design (Part Five)

... is an active duty Infantry Officer in the US Army. A veteran of OIF 1 and OIF 6, Ben is currently attending the School for ... in ways that are connected to the nature of the research question. I see a strong conceptual and methodological connection between a ...

Journal Article - Apr 15 2011 - 4:58am - 35 comments

Killing Your Way to Control

... like Luttwak, Peters, and Scheuer have proposed it for a number of years. The question is whether it is politically feasible for Western Democracies playing ...

Blog entry - Jul 5 2011 - 8:00am - 98 comments - 0 attachments