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... Department of Defense Budget Press Briefing - As Prepared for Delivery by Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates, ... -- and, in particular, from our experience in Iraq and Afghanistan. I reached the final decisions after many hours of consultations ...

Blog post - Apr 6 2009 - 2:13pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments

... was biased from the results of the coalition warfare in Afghanistan that sort of looked like UW. I am not rejecting the possibility ... 2006? What impressed me the most was when he had a briefing by one of the affected BCTs the BCT Cmdr firmly rejected that he could ...

Blog post - Jan 24 2012 - 3:29pm - 41 comments - 0 attachments

... ten years --especially since one cannot equate Iraq to Afghanistan. We need to understand just "how" do say two events ie Iraq and ... senior leadership on the DTOs and you would think it is a briefing on an insurgency movement somewhere in the world--that is just how ...

Blog post - Dec 6 2011 - 10:05am - 68 comments - 0 attachments

... with the United States. As the White House background briefing on the raid makes clear, the United States kept the raid completely ... be the most bloody year yet for U.S. soldiers fighting in Afghanistan. The result could be a final collapse of public support for the war ...

Blog post - May 2 2011 - 8:58am - 60 comments - 0 attachments

... DOD News Briefing with Gen. McChrystal from the Pentagon - 13 May 2010 ... I'm ... morning, to share my thoughts with our ongoing efforts in Afghanistan. I know most of you have been covering this for years. So I'll try ...

Blog post - May 13 2010 - 6:27pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments

... force on that day in Kandahar. In fact, unless U.S. Forces-Afghanistan (USFOR-A) had granted an exception specifically for White to be ... available.  Additionally, transcripts of a 1994 press briefing indicate that DoD officials believed that the assignment of women to ...

Journal Article - Nov 20 2011 - 8:34am - 46 comments

... F3EAD Since October 2001, combat operations in the Afghanistan Theater of Operations have presented the U.S. Army with constant ... that is how I recall the Army's Asymmetric Warfare Group briefing it once out at Leavenworth - I recall the AWG briefer telling the ...

Journal Article - Jul 16 2011 - 8:50am - 57 comments

... A Tale of Two Design Efforts (and why they both failed in Afghanistan) by Grant Martin Download the Full Article: A ... is worthless; and I cringe every time I hear someone in a briefing tell me "we are going to facilitate that"... Why use 'facilitate?' ...

Journal Article - Jul 7 2011 - 4:24pm - 75 comments

... take some time to go through a paper he wrote recently in Afghanistan. (I didn't get it from him, by the way.) While it ostensibly is ... through a few simple statements in a SITREP or briefing? Think of QTBs to measure unit readiness, ORAs to measure Iraqi ...

Blog post - Feb 8 2010 - 2:36pm - 79 comments - 0 attachments

... it is constantly who can get the credit at the next briefing. I do not know how many times a SF CWO MI OB type would troll ... is still making those same mistakes with triple agents ie Afghanistan. Do they ever learn? You can see still the issues between big ...

Journal Article - Dec 13 2009 - 11:25am - 77 comments