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... A Tale of Two Design Efforts (and why they both failed in Afghanistan) by ...

Journal Article - Jul 7 2011 - 3:24pm - 75 comments

... How Afghanistan Ends: A Political-Military Path to Peace by Linda Robinson Download ... of examples over thousands of years merged in this one tale that has taken the form of Robin Hood for us of Anglo descent. In fact, a ...

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

... UPDATE : 21 Feb 2011 According to a just-released article in the Washington Post , U.S. officials have ... efforts on hard targets such as moving vehicles? That tale has been the most laughable (along with the bleating about "illegal ...

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

... the war” episode of Fawlty Towers .  In a recent op-ed entitled “Germany has declared war on the eurozone,” ... like the American empire in post-WWII Europe, is a fairy tale. [16]   For the past two years, Berlin has deliberately used all ...

Journal Article - Nov 29 2011 - 8:32am - 4 comments

... A Civilian's Comprehensive Critique of the U.S. Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual...In 5-6 Pages ... reality. One driving factor is the old wife's tale that "effectiveness" of governance prevents or cures insurgency. Little ...

Journal Article - May 5 2011 - 8:01pm - 73 comments

... the lives of Afghans and bring light and learning to a troubled part of the world." How the U.S. ... short tutorial there are two factors that pertain to the tale that you're aware of but that some often miss. "We could have avoided ...

Blog entry - Apr 21 2011 - 2:31pm - 48 comments - 0 attachments

... Accidental Guerrilla: Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One by Mark Safranski at Chicago Boyz. I purchased a copy of ... Borges' "Library of Babel." It might be a cautionary tale in your search for a messiah toting an unimpeachable gospel. Re: ...

Blog entry - May 7 2010 - 10:51am - 49 comments - 0 attachments

... Overwhelmingly the American people would say the war was a mistake, and undeniably the reason we went to war in the first place was ... likely to be responsive to those real reasons, thus the tale of eliminating WMD rather stupidly arose -- and as is often the case, ...

Blog entry - Dec 14 2011 - 2:23pm - 13 comments - 0 attachments

... the full article America is not fighting a global war on terror; rather, it is engaged in a global insurgency whose ... meant as a knee jerk reaction, but more as a cautionary tale. Though I haven't been back to Yemen in several years. I'm told we are ...

Journal Article - Aug 3 2010 - 11:33am - 44 comments

... A Tale of Two Countries Counterinsurgency and Capacity Building in the ...

Journal Article - Jun 12 2008 - 7:53pm - 0 comments