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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

... 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 post - Mar 1 2007 - 6:12pm - 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 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 - 59 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

... 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

... 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

... 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

... will deliver the best return on investment, provide a tax base and deny vital ground to the advances of the insurgents. ... about my opening statement. The first is that much better soldiers than me have been saying for many years that there is not a military ...

Journal Article - May 21 2012 - 5:48am - 28 comments

... aggressively pursuing insurgent fighters has produced a unique type of Soldier, Sailor, Airman and Marine; adroit at waging war, they ... sent on the ground development officials, policymakers and soldiers unprepared for the task of counterinsurgency? All of our ...

Journal Article - May 11 2012 - 6:05am - 25 comments