- Defense Strategy and Military Planning for an Era of Persistent Conflict
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... the national security environment to inform debates about the future of U.S. defense strategy, the changing nature of warfare, and ... among defense strategists and military planners. Hoffman sums up the current state of debate regarding the: “If at the end ...
Journal Article - Jan 26 2012 - 6:17am - 8 comments
- Irregular Warfare, Village Stability Operations and the Venture Capital Green Beret
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... in which the community may conduct its business and go about its life. In most contexts today this means establishing a local security ... how venture capital actually operates. The following sums them up: The desired endstate of VSO and a Venture Capital ...
Journal Article - May 14 2012 - 4:42am - 62 comments
- Design Theory and the Military’s Understanding of Our Complex World
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... 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 - 12:30pm - 83 comments
- Westmoreland: The General Who Lost Vietnam
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... As a strategist who spends a great deal of time thinking about these things, I think this spears the wrong general and is 10 years off ... Gen. Krulak." That statement, accurate in totality, sums up my thoughts and those of many of my contemporaries. It is at least ...
Blog post - May 22 2012 - 7:29am - 22 comments - 0 attachments
- Empire at War: The Effects of the War on Terrorism on the American Middle Class
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... and national security reform. Estimates vary about the financial costs of the War on Terrorism. One assessment suggests ... breakdown enunciating specifically where these alleged sums were spent and for what cost category or item they were spent. How much ...
Blog post - Apr 23 2012 - 12:04pm - 25 comments - 0 attachments
- How Afghanistan Ends
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... 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 - 11:22pm - 120 comments
- Review: The Insurgent Archipelago
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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 post - Feb 10 2010 - 10:04am - 13 comments - 0 attachments
- This Week at War: The General's Dystopia
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... -- areas where the Pentagon has invested enormous sums over past decades. The advantages U.S. forces formerly gained from those ... territorial claims that may bring such a situation about. As a result, (1) we will continue to struggle to sustain a global U.S. ...
Blog post - Apr 20 2012 - 2:11pm - 10 comments - 0 attachments
- Forget about China's missiles and stealth fighter; worry instead about 'non-kinetic' combat
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... 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 post - Jan 19 2011 - 11:16am - 8 comments - 0 attachments
- Book review: Obama's Wars
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... 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 post - Oct 5 2010 - 2:21pm - 17 comments - 0 attachments


