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

Blog entry - Feb 8 2010 - 5:20am - 0 comments - 0 attachments

... 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 - 6:55am - 9 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 entry - Dec 30 2008 - 6:30pm - 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 - 6:39pm - 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 - 8:59am - 29 comments

... 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 entry - Apr 17 2011 - 8:50am - 18 comments - 0 attachments

... 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 entry - Jul 24 2009 - 6:44am - 19 comments - 0 attachments

... Update: Lifting the Fog of Peace at a special 40% discount when purchased at The University of Michigan Press . ... the Fog of Peace: How Americans Learned to Fight Modern War by Dr. Janine Davidson . Counterinsurgency and stability ...

Blog entry - Sep 29 2010 - 1:14pm - 13 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 - 6:48am - 15 comments

... Here's a sampling of some early reaction - and in no particular order - to General ... debate about Afghanistan and what to do about the war, I haven't heard anyone advocate surrendering to the Taliban. What I have ...

Blog entry - Sep 21 2009 - 5:58pm - 3 comments - 0 attachments