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... of Rolling Stone magazine, wherein Nir Rosen , an American reporter, described his visit with Taliban forces in Afghanistan. ...

Blog post - Oct 29 2008 - 7:12pm - 33 comments - 0 attachments

... philosophy, abstraction, and unorthodox thinking, I offer an intellectual olive branch of sorts. There is a reason hardly any of these ... with the fights at COPs Keating and Kahler. American tactical and operational leaders, particularly in the Army, ... he is handling the IO side and participated in a Spanish journalist interview in 2004, he sets up training sessions for rockets, ...

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

... An attempt to answer the question:  What problem are we trying to solve? ... is violated the system will begin to disintegrate. The American military appears to be doing just that. In other words and IMO the ...

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

... after a night of hazing by the hand of his fellow Marines, an incident resulting in a trial by court-martial of three Marines who ... articles and blogs related to the case.  He was an American Soldier who enlisted as an infantryman during a time of war to serve ...

Blog post - Dec 23 2011 - 1:44pm - 88 comments - 0 attachments

... first place? What is the plan that is thought to lead to an Indian invasion? This is NDC-level bullshit allowed to become national ... And the following book examines the Kargil war from American, Indian, and Pakistani points of view (from the description, I have ...

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

... a foreign-policy team that is struggling with the war. In an article in Rolling Stone magazine, Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal and his ... and by crumbling public support for the nine-year war as American casualties rise. The criticism of General McChrystal's statements was ...

Blog post - Jun 23 2010 - 6:04am - 89 comments - 0 attachments

... some initial throat-clearing (one of my rules when I was an editor was to see if I could cut the first three pages of any long article), ... by the killing of civilians in war. During World War II American Airmen believed that the bombing of industrial centers and the killing ...

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

... and The Australian . Robert J. Bunker is an Epochal Warfare Studies scholar and security consultant focusing on ... 2008).  He has written several studies on Latin American security issues for the Department of the Army, the Department of ...

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... to those beating the ‘drum of withdrawal’ of American forces in Afghanistan.  For some, this may be a legitimate and ... who serve as trainers, mentors, enablers, and liaisons in an attempt to stabilize local villages and connect them to the Government of ...

Journal Article - Mar 27 2012 - 4:39am - 5 comments

... through security and better governance -- is not done by an outside intervening power like the United States, but by the host country ... to rethink their doctrines for stability operations. The American public and its political leaders did not have the patience for ...

Blog post - Jun 23 2011 - 1:30pm - 64 comments - 0 attachments