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... than usual, but as Senior Counterinsurgency Adviser I have a duty to set the record straight on this. There is a real country called ... when their troops abandoned the base at Amara. But the soldiers acknowledged they had actually been mortared out. Within weeks, Amara ...

Blog entry - Mar 1 2007 - 5:12pm - 14 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 entry - Oct 31 2007 - 1:30pm - 215 comments - 0 attachments

... task force to which she was attached triggered an IED. In a press release, U.S. Army Special Operations Command (USASOC) stated that ... level has not been acted upon. [6] Female Soldiers in Combined Joint Operations Area-Afghanistan (CJOA-A) Female ...

Journal Article - Nov 20 2011 - 7:34am - 46 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 entry - Nov 19 2010 - 5:57am - 27 comments - 0 attachments

... How Afghanistan Ends: A Political-Military Path to Peace by Linda Robinson Download ... government...it cannot! Put yourself in the place of Soldiers who ruck up everyday knowing full well that the Afghan government ...

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

... in Ranks by Greg Jaffe, Washington Post . BLUF: "A major U.S. Army survey of leadership and morale found that more than 80 ... a leader, if you see the nobility and meaning in leading Soldiers in garrison and in combat, stay the course and deal with the delay. ...

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

... The Targeting Process: D3A and F3EAD by Jimmy A. Gomez Download the Full Article: The Targeting Process: D3A and ... universal, predictable, and repetitive solutions where soldiers do not need to think; if they do think, they must SPEAK AND ACT IN ...

Journal Article - Jul 16 2011 - 7:50am - 57 comments

... 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 ... you suggest for Design's future? Remember that in the end, soldiers need to execute...so we as leaders must cultivate and convey something ...

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

... like Luttwak, Peters, and Scheuer have proposed it for a number of years. The question is whether it is politically feasible for ... with the general in charge in that he has to use his soldiers in non military roles as there is most often no one else or no one ...

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

... UPDATE : 21 Feb 2011 According to a just-released article in the Washington Post , U.S. officials have ... 86 years in 2010 on charges of attempting to kill American soldiers and FBI agents in Afghanistan. The embattled US embassy finds ...

Blog entry - Feb 21 2011 - 2:00pm - 95 comments - 0 attachments