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... career servicemembers– and in some cases, viewed as an anathema.  This is primarily because entrepreneurs see a need and ... of a range of new toolsets for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. These toolsets doubled in use almost every year since precisely ...

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

... detachment of the United States Army stationed in eastern Afghanistan, for help. Mindful of orders to protect the civilian population, we ... of what I actually did say. He also attributes to me an assertion Ive never made and to which I dont subscribe, claiming that I ...

Blog post - Dec 8 2009 - 6:40am - 22 comments - 0 attachments

... eleven years of non-stop general and limited war in Afghanistan, Iraq, the Philippines and elsewhere, Village Stability Operations ... and melded to our domain. Fortunately, there is already an almost direct analog for the DIME centric Green Beret, the Venture ...

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

... a story will only continue as the army and police grow by an additional 35,000 by the end of October." LTG Caldwell is the Commanding General of NATO Training Mission-Afghanistan . The Unnoticed Surge in Afghan ...

Blog post - Feb 15 2011 - 8:58am - 9 comments - 0 attachments

... An Air Force officer tenders a letter of surrender. ... grenades (empty 30mm casing inside the perimeter). In Afghanistan they used the rising dust plateau to mask their approach run ...

Blog post - May 14 2012 - 4:55am - 41 comments - 0 attachments

... to make sense of what is known in order to construct an explicit and shared hypothesis of the very unique, dynamic and complex ... was biased from the results of the coalition warfare in Afghanistan that sort of looked like UW. I am not rejecting the possibility ...

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

... philosophy, abstraction, and unorthodox thinking, I offer an intellectual olive branch of sorts. There is a reason hardly any of these ... Complex Adaptive Systems - A Case Study of Corruption in Afghanistan." I would argue that the intelligence method, the "Emergent States ...

Journal Article - Aug 7 2011 - 12:30pm - 83 comments

... An attempt to answer the question:  What problem are we trying to solve? ... "0, 1, and 1" as the major would have told Gunny Highway. Afghanistan, Iraq, F-22, F-35, AAAV, etc, etc, and we are hurt by "disruptive" ...

Journal Article - Apr 9 2012 - 5:00am - 61 comments

... Define for success :  Defining key terms with an eye toward criteria that lend themselves to similar approaches for solving ... in Iraq, but not during “the surge” in Afghanistan, with predictable results).   The blend of perceptions of ...

Blog post - May 7 2012 - 5:12pm - 43 comments - 0 attachments

... How Afghanistan Ends: A Political-Military Path to Peace by Linda ... first place? What is the plan that is thought to lead to an Indian invasion? This is NDC-level bullshit allowed to become national ...

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