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... Disruptive thinkers: the way to reinvigorate a senseless bureaucracy or a threat to the establishment?  ... with the possibilty he would have to leave four of his soldiers MIA). Not to speak ill of the dead, but I'm not sure I perceive Jobs ...

Journal Article - Apr 5 2012 - 4:36am - 94 comments

... (MG USA) and Paul van Riper (LtGen USMC) ask "why are our soldiers still involved in fair fights?" See their op-ed in today's ... our soldiers still involved in fair fights? I have a tremendous respect for MG Scales, so I clicked onto this article with some ...

Blog post - Nov 19 2010 - 6:57am - 27 comments - 0 attachments

... importance to Small Wars Journal readers. We, as a nation, are having a crisis of honor. Last week the Attorney General ... must go back to the realm of SERE training our operators, soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines. We must now double our efforts to ...

Blog post - Oct 31 2007 - 2:30pm - 215 comments - 0 attachments

... we fail to fully grasp how all these operations fit into a functional whole. This is due to the fact we have yet to add one critical ... areas. Or, were you offering a metaphorical model to SF soldiers to help think through stability ops missions- so that as a VC is to a ...

Journal Article - May 14 2012 - 4:42am - 61 comments

... received renewed attention since 9/11. Though lamented by a few, this state of affairs has been on the whole lauded by a profession by ... our nation. A military comprised of a majority of citizen-soldiers tends to temper any inclinations towards Organization Man and Garrison ...

Journal Article - Jun 30 2009 - 5:30pm - 2 comments

... An Air Force officer tenders a letter of surrender. Editor's ... and Marine 6-7 month tours instead of the 12-15 month ones Soldiers endured through most of the war. c) In real USAF and Navy ...

Blog post - May 14 2012 - 4:55am - 41 comments - 0 attachments

... This technology has enabled and empowered the rise of a new enemy. This enemy is not constrained by the borders of a nation or the ... area: First, we need to Encourage Soldiers to "tell/share their story". Across America, there is a widely held ...

Blog post - Feb 3 2008 - 1:50pm - 26 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 ... of a clearly supernatural nature such as vampires hunting soldiers…but the Huk rival did. In the absence of facts, their logic was ...

Journal Article - Aug 7 2011 - 12:30pm - 83 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 ... further contribute to the preventable loss of life by our Soldiers' own hands.  Dr. Thomas Joiner's interpersonal theory of ...

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

... itself.  This will put current content into a more appropriate context and nuance in general, and address the primary ... (sorry - made up word..) by the target audience (that is, soldiers and marines - it is military doctrine after all..). And here is where ...

Blog post - May 7 2012 - 5:12pm - 43 comments - 0 attachments