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... Thinking Critically about COIN and Creatively about Strategy and War An Interview with Colonel Gian Gentile by ... too. Recent books like Tom Ricks's duo of Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq and The Gamble: General Petraeus and ...

Journal Article - Dec 14 2010 - 8:37pm - 83 comments

... Counterinsurgency Strategy Not Working in Afghanistan, Critics Say by David Wood, Politics ... in Afghanistan, Criti Dick: Well if you read what American commanders from company up to Division and higher have been saying ...

Blog post - Jan 12 2011 - 8:44am - 71 comments - 0 attachments

... The Statistical Irrelevance of American SIGACT Data: Iraq Surge Analysis Reveals Reality by Joshua ... of success or failure of the Iraqi counterinsurgency strategy was concentrated around the concept of massing combat power in time ...

Journal Article - Apr 12 2011 - 6:45am - 31 comments

... Behavioral economics and psychology?  Investment strategy?  Creating and adapting a dynamic balance sheet?  True ... way most of the lions of history could be generals in the American military would be if presidents blew the dust off the Title X ...

Journal Article - Apr 5 2012 - 4:36am - 94 comments

... I'd like to digress from my usual analysis of insurgent strategy and tactics to speak out on an issue of grave importance to Small ... leave you to question the meaning of what it is to be an American. We live at a time where Americans, completely uninformed by an ...

Blog post - Oct 31 2007 - 2:30pm - 215 comments - 0 attachments

... Cordesman’s “ Afghanistan: The Death of a Strategy ” provides a realistic analysis of the US problem in AfPak. It ... the party proposing it. In the meantime, ironically, the American public recognizes, in its uniquely semiconscious way, what our policy ...

Journal Article - Mar 3 2012 - 11:26am - 45 comments

... Nation Building at the Barrel of an American Gun? A Short Reply to the Dubik and Kagans' Washington Post ... "Building Afghan forces dramatically is part of a strategy for succeeding in Afghanistan and permitting the reduction of foreign ...

Blog post - Sep 13 2009 - 8:19am - 29 comments - 0 attachments

... America's Flawed Afghanistan Strategy - Dr. Steven Metz, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute ... after all, is the fundamental rationale for continued American involve-ment in Afghanistan. But throughout the "war on terror," no ...

Blog post - Aug 11 2010 - 4:47pm - 48 comments - 0 attachments

... those constraints were appropriate based on our national strategy and objectives. That didn't mean we didn't desire to operate ... biological mother is correct, I am three quarters Native American, and between five and fourteen I spent a great amount of time with the ...

Journal Article - May 14 2012 - 4:42am - 62 comments

... Afghan Village Militia A People-Centric Strategy to Win by Dr. Ronald L. Holt Afghan Village Militia: ... U.S. Spurs Rise of Militias by Dexter Filkins. American officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said they intended ...

Journal Article - Sep 2 2009 - 6:45pm - 21 comments