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... 99 responded. An overwhelming majority of respondents, a total of 80, gave the program a grade of 65 percent or less, which the survey ... to be more responsive to GIRoA officials as if they have a short notice need to discuss an issue with me I can readily attend. There are ...

Blog post - Apr 8 2011 - 3:30pm - 26 comments - 0 attachments

... A Short Response to AF-PAK and South Asia Hands by Colonel David S. ...

Journal Article - Dec 31 2009 - 6:35am - 2 comments

... Christopher Bassford offers a saucy counterpoint to the Cordesman suggestion that we continue to muddle ... and uniformed—to be decisively swayed by the short-term logic of the orphaned parricide and the ... both suggested in hindsight, if we limited our post 9/11 response to a strategic raid to seek and kill AQ and those who defended them ...

Journal Article - Mar 3 2012 - 11:26am - 45 comments

... (DOD).  The AfPak Hands program was founded with a visionary goal in mind; to build trust between the U.S. military and the ... A Short Response to AF-PAK and South Asia Hands ...

Journal Article - Jan 28 2012 - 7:36am - 9 comments

... Article: The Real Plan B in AfPak In response to a charge of inconsistency, British economist John Maynard Keynes once famously ... program has led to unexpected progress in a remarkably short period of time. At the strategic level, though, there has not been any ...

Journal Article - Feb 5 2011 - 8:48am - 9 comments

... How Afghanistan Ends: A Political-Military Path to Peace by Linda Robinson Download ... on bottom-up measures that can produce momentum in the short term, and 3) a political diplomatic strategy embraced and pursued in ...

Journal Article - Dec 2 2010 - 11:22pm - 120 comments

... COL Rich Outzen makes a plea for a transformational approach to promoting language skills in the ... encounter. Then we will spend massive amounts of money for short windows of partial capability. The cost for such incapacity has and will ...

Journal Article - Mar 20 2012 - 5:26am - 30 comments

... on some fragile assumptions. U.S. policymakers should have a Plan B ready. In my Foreign Policy ... West Point Surge version 1991 in Afghanistan, yes? In short, and i may be wrong in reading your post, but i see a closet nation ...

Blog post - May 4 2012 - 3:17pm - 14 comments - 0 attachments

... like Luttwak, Peters, and Scheuer have proposed it for a number of years. The question is whether it is politically feasible for ... over a few villagers, but I suspect that loyalty will be short lived. I won't pin myself down to a doctrine or philosophy, ...

Blog post - Jul 5 2011 - 9:00am - 98 comments - 0 attachments

... UPDATE : 21 Feb 2011 According to a just-released article in the Washington Post , U.S. officials have ... good for the US in the long run as it could be bad in the short. It might force us to stop trying to square a circle and see the most ...

Blog post - Feb 21 2011 - 3:00pm - 95 comments - 0 attachments