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... Review is not published electronically. Dr. David Betz sums it up nicely -- why??!!. That said, David does us a service by publishing ... Now read why. John Mackinlay has been thinking about insurgency and counterinsurgency in one way or another for the better ...

Blog entry - Feb 10 2010 - 9:04am - 13 comments - 0 attachments

... become a step within a planning process… to think about Design requires us to think from a different perspective - a perspective ... Patterns of Conflict and noticed this slide which kind of sums up some of your thoughts? It was also interesting to research Boyd as he ...

Journal Article - Aug 7 2011 - 11:30am - 79 comments

... Information Dominance. What's Dorsett's greatest concern? It is China's capabilities for non-kinetic combat, its potential to "develop ... naval intelligence. This excerpt from the briefing sums up Dorsett's concerns: I've been concerned about Chinese game-changing capabilities in non-kinetic vice kinetic. I am ...

Blog entry - Jan 19 2011 - 10:16am - 8 comments - 0 attachments

... process on Afghanistan, CIA Director Leon Panetta sums up the book's theme (p. 247): "No Democratic president can go ... his principal advisers. Finally, a president will be wary about letting any of his subordinates achieve the status of "irreplaceable." As ...

Blog entry - Oct 5 2010 - 1:21pm - 17 comments - 0 attachments

... Week at War" column , I asked the following questions about America's use of killer drones: Specifically, if it is legal for ... of a group that was in some way hostile to the U.S. Koh sums it up this way: Some have argued that the use of lethal force ...

Blog entry - Apr 7 2010 - 10:35am - 10 comments - 0 attachments

... any important sanctions. We haven't pressed them hard about Mumbai and we haven't complained when they all but pull the trigger ... Or can it? Specifically, I am talking about large sums of money and the resulting complaints of corruption. What did we think ...

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

... get it from him, by the way.) While it ostensibly is about metrics in COIN campaigning, it amounts to a thorough discussion of what ... country it is... However, Ricks last paragraph really sums it up quite well: "...Can you imagine being a new battalion commander ...

Blog entry - Feb 8 2010 - 1:36pm - 79 comments - 0 attachments

... in like salt. To me, it would be worse to not be honest about what is really going on. Re: Mexico Angry at U.S. Official's ... To reduce interference by law enforcement large sums of money are given to officals as bribes, degrading the legitimacy of the ...

Blog entry - Feb 9 2011 - 3:18pm - 37 comments - 0 attachments

... my latest month in the field in Afghanistan disquieted about our basic military mission. Is the military mission to engage, push back ... Congress may eventually balk at spending such sums year after year. The problem is we're liable to be gradually pulled out ...

Blog entry - Aug 15 2009 - 5:23pm - 35 comments - 0 attachments

... Effects-based operations is both a way of thinking about operations and a set of processes and procedures for planning, executing, ... of mumbo-jumbo. One quote from this article kind of sums it up for me. "Once again, we were poised to introduce a philosophy as ...

Journal Article - Sep 20 2010 - 6:23pm - 32 comments