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AfPak Channel

... magazine and the New America Foundation are launching The AfPak Channel, a special project taking readers inside the war for South Asia. The ...

Blog post - Aug 10 2009 - 5:57pm - 2 comments - 0 attachments

How Afghanistan Ends

... too damn threat-centric in our approaches. Look at the AFPAK COE where Ms Robinson worked at CENTCOM. Is it in their J5 and driven by ... to achieve its state building goals, the objective is to channel that assistance into productive investments that galvanize ...

Journal Article - Dec 2 2010 - 11:22pm - 120 comments

UPDATED: The strange case of Raymond Davis, a 'strategic corporal' in Pakistan

... her death bed she gave an interview to a television news channel in which she prayed Davis would be brought to justice. One morning ... nation build, a la the vaunted "whole of government" AfPak regional strategy? Like I said above: Please! So, all of that is ...

Blog post - Feb 21 2011 - 3:00pm - 95 comments - 0 attachments

One Team’s Approach to Village Stability Operations

... ABP Checkpoints. ABP’s checkpoints (CP) along the AFPAK border range from a heavily fortified structure with an array of fully ... in the subject of VSO, he let me in on some of the back channel issues that caused friction with its implementation, even at the hadns ...

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

The US in Afghanistan: Follow Sun Tzu rather than Clausewitz to Victory

... http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/generic/story_generic.jsp?channel=awst&id... Re: The US in Afghanistan: Follow Sun Tzu rather ...

Journal Article - Dec 11 2010 - 10:53am - 67 comments

Deconstructing Galula

... to draw those lines is the hard part. As to the AFPAK region I do not write to convince you, your mind is made up and I am ok ... has a certain frisson and I do hope a cable TV channel makes a reality show out of the premise. Re: Deconstructing Galula ...

Blog post - Jun 5 2011 - 10:58am - 55 comments - 0 attachments

National Security Decision-Making and Small Wars

... misplaced in an article at Foreign Policy's Af-Pak Channel . Before arguing about counterinsurgency as a tactic or a ...

Blog post - Jan 27 2012 - 7:45pm - 4 comments - 0 attachments

Mission Can't-Complete

... scathing indictment  at Foreign Policy's Af-Pak Channel of the op-ed penned by Bruce Reidel and Michael O'Hanlon . ...

Blog post - Mar 21 2012 - 5:43am - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Challenges Ahead in the Middle East

... should any of that preclude anything? Afghanistan and the AfPak frontier, like most of the world's marginal areas, has little or no ... and describe the contours and obstacles of the main channel and floodplain though and, to continue the metaphor, to remember that ...

Journal Article - Jul 7 2011 - 4:18pm - 36 comments

It's Time We Move Beyond COIN

... Foreign Policy's Af-Pak Channel published an article of mine on strategy It's Time We ... 'it' is. (I deliberately use the phrase 'true nature' to channel a well established philosophy.....) The lexicon is either misunderstood ...

Blog post - Dec 19 2011 - 2:37pm - 16 comments - 0 attachments