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... attempted to frame the problem in this essay and you will be able to find all the "disruptive thinker" essays at ... detailed maps add up to a cockpit stuffed with gazette books that really can be a safety of flight issue. Or you go with less maps ...

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

... 9/11. And he talked ..." He then speculated that "If you ask Americans whether they think it's okay for us to waterboard in a ... with that ability, we should undo all of the laws on the books forbidding such behavior and withdraw from all treaties that do so as ...

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

... and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization , Anchor Books, 1999 Rory Hanlin, One Team’s Approach to Village Stability ... to jobs) are drivers for the conflicts there, and I think you have yet to make a case that this will contribute to defeating the ...

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

... Current Books on Pakistan, Shiism, and Saudi Arabia: Thinking Beyond Usama Bin Laden ... books recently published about the region. I hope to give you an overview of books I enjoyed and others that were much more challenging ...

Journal Article - Jun 5 2011 - 10:29am - 5 comments

... solutions to complex problems. How's that working out for you ? I wrote a lengthy reply, and I wrote a lengthy reply, and the ... sure do alot of them, but they make for good lists of some books and articles I am interested in checking out at the library. Nice ...

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

... are often a bit of a B-team, and they know it.  When you add all of these factors together, the dynamic within these headquarters ... "good enough," and as such was chalked up in the history books as a "win" for government. But what is "winning" in such situations? Is ...

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

... for the clarification. I am in broad agreement. The point you make about 'containment' COIN is a very good one. I think that we (the west ... some insurgent movement or another. Our history books are full of accounts of COIN campaigns "won" when the measure of success ...

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

... InTheKnow: Hazing is by definition abusive and for you to defend "good" hazing as opposed to "bad" hazing is akin to saying some ... training and all the other things I've read about in books. One thing it doesn't require is frat boy high jinks in the name of ...

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

... that Afghan voters will instead beg us to stay. If you agree that we would have a moral obligation to do that, then surely you ... etc. to circulate among the talk shows and publish popular books that misrepresent the truth, but clearly support a political agenda. ...

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

... side doesn't have one, only policy. Right now if you talk to these young men and women about their positive vision of the future ... some of the best personal development and business books translated into Dari and Pashtu and made available as audio files under ...

Journal Article - May 21 2012 - 5:48am - 29 comments