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... kind of enough to be interviewed by Small Wars Journal on the occasion of the release of his latest book The Strongest Tribe . ... a member of the Council on Foreign Relations . West has been to Iraq on 15 trips since 2003, embedding with over 60 battalions. ...

Blog entry - Aug 15 2008 - 4:45am - 0 comments - 0 attachments

... Been on two road trips and missed getting an early jump on Dave Kilcullen's testimony ...

Blog entry - Apr 27 2009 - 8:09pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments

... kind of enough to be interviewed by Small Wars Journal on the occasion of the release of his latest book The Strongest Tribe . ... a member of the Council on Foreign Relations . West has been to Iraq on 15 trips since 2003, embedding with over 60 battalions. ...

Blog entry - Aug 14 2008 - 5:30am - 1 comment - 0 attachments

... that it has essentially become Army dogma. Most writing on the subject is overwhelming supportive. However, one officer has stood out ... articles that question COIN. Colonel Gian Gentile has been the one dissenting voice in the Army. He has used well researched and ...

Journal Article - Jun 1 2010 - 4:36pm - 78 comments

... Continue on for SWJ's Korea news and opinion links. ... strategy? The fundamental strategy until 1994 has been solely focused on deterring war with north Korea. In 1994 a second ...

Blog entry - Nov 24 2010 - 5:53am - 40 comments - 0 attachments

... counter-drug (CD) operations are making a limited impact on narco-trafficking in Mexico. If they continue their current CD tactics, they ... in the CD fight is the population, we in the US have been been largely ineffective in reducing America's insatiable appetite for ...

Journal Article - Jan 24 2011 - 7:40am - 37 comments

... 1954 and 1956, and how this later changed to a reliance on American conventional warfare with its highly destructive firepower. He ... a surgeon perform an operation on himself. Mansoor has been simultaneously a soldier and a scholar, able to synergize directly his ...

Blog entry - Oct 11 2008 - 1:12am - 0 comments - 0 attachments

... interviews with top officers in Iraq and extraordinary on-the-ground reportage to document the inside story of the Iraq War since late ... a surgeon perform an operation on himself. Mansoor has been simultaneously a soldier and a scholar, able to synergize directly his ...

Blog entry - Dec 28 2008 - 4:06am - 0 comments - 0 attachments

... The Strongest Tribe is Bing West's third book on the Iraq War. It is a capstone volume, covering the conflict from 2003 until ... in Baghdad. One has to wonder how many lives could have been saved if the generals and Bush administration officials had permitted a ...

Blog entry - Sep 18 2008 - 11:44am - 3 comments - 0 attachments

... before him, leaves foreign policy to military officers on the ground to invent as they go. As in Vietnam, the war in Afghanistan ... Our strategic goal in Afghanistan should simply be (have been) to drive out Al Qeada and punish the Taliban for allowing them a base of ...

Journal Article - Jun 22 2011 - 7:45am - 40 comments