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... A Well-Written War, Told in the First Person - Elisabeth Bumiller, New York Times . ...

Blog post - Feb 8 2010 - 6:20am - 0 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 ... as you term it. I think providing a conflict like the Gulf War and draw comparisions from each side on how they seemed to be thinking. But ...

Journal Article - Aug 7 2011 - 12:30pm - 83 comments

... The Village Stability Operations Methodology is a bottom up approach that employs USSOF teams and partnered units embedded with ... right now, but is very much needed at this juncture in the war in Afganistan. It is my hope that other Detachement Commanders can read ...

Journal Article - Sep 4 2011 - 7:55am - 11 comments

... climb .  I have known Dave Petraeus since he was a Captain.  We served together twice.  He is one of the most ... since 1980, and last year finished a book on the war there .  I visited General Petraeus in Kabul last summer and continue ...

Journal Article - Feb 14 2012 - 5:47am - 6 comments

... and agendas, complicated by regulatory language created in a much different strategic communications environment, overlain with a frisson ... of people who proclaim that we are losing the information war far outnumbers the people who actually have timely and complete knowledge ...

Blog post - Dec 30 2008 - 7:30pm - 41 comments - 0 attachments

... the proverbial Napoleon's Corporal. It is for those with a need to use Design but lack a100 plus hours of specialized Design ... College. He also served on the faculty at the U.S. Army War College. COL Eikmeier served in a variety of command and staff positions in ...

Journal Article - Sep 27 2010 - 7:39pm - 29 comments

... complexity lends itself to the salient fact that it is not a straight on fight; instead it is a method of warfare that employs ... or kinetic strike the next. UW is not just a slugger's war or a thinking man's war; it requires a mental and physical decathlete whose ...

Journal Article - Jan 9 2011 - 9:59am - 29 comments

... readers to compete in an essay contest at AFJ, with a selection of books as the prize. Col. Hammes' article has gotten quite a ... Prize-winning reporter and author of two books on the Iraq War, notes that the use of PowerPoint slides instead of written text permeated ...

Blog post - Jul 24 2009 - 7:44am - 19 comments - 0 attachments

... See Rolf Schwarz's article, "Preventing state failure: a proposed agenda for NATO" in Forum Paper #14, Complex Operations: NATO at war and on the margins of war" at: ... National Security Perhaps we should look at this from a somewhat different perspective: a. Cir. Apr 1999, during the Kosovo ...

Blog post - Apr 17 2011 - 9:50am - 18 comments - 0 attachments

... The Toyota Horde: Examining a Lost Cost Military Capability by William F. Owen Download ... capability, such as that possessed by NATO during the cold war is no longer needed, because few potential enemies possess similar peer ...

Journal Article - Apr 7 2010 - 7:48am - 15 comments