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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 post - Aug 15 2008 - 5:45am - 0 comments - 0 attachments

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

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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 post - Aug 14 2008 - 6:30am - 1 comment - 0 attachments

... this hypothesis.  This is part of a much larger on-going work, but given the urgency of today, I felt it necessary to share my ... then, I am a diehard armchair commentator who has never been to Diyala- I generally try and avoid rough areas of London! What the ...

Blog post - Jan 24 2012 - 3:29pm - 40 comments - 0 attachments

... asked by an anxious questioner, "Mr. Secretary, how on earth can we ever bring peace to the world?" Stimson is said to ... related decisions, their stake increases. It might have been possible to dissuade a man of strong self-confidence at an early stage of ...

Blog post - Feb 3 2012 - 6:54pm - 18 comments - 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 - 5:36pm - 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 post - Nov 24 2010 - 6:53am - 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 - 8:40am - 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 post - Oct 11 2008 - 2:12am - 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 ...

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