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... you alone and find a guy they can more easily bully and break and use. Not for information, but to control. Stockdale, McCain, and the ... for cooperation. The whole process combined is designed to break the will and sanity of the captive. To reduce a man to an insane wreck ...

Blog entry - Oct 31 2007 - 1:30pm - 215 comments - 0 attachments

... training, education or doctrine writing. Re: BREAK, BREAK… Good on yer, mate! A sane voice in an insane world. ...

Blog entry - Nov 1 2007 - 6:26pm - 1 comment - 0 attachments

... position on the purpose of war phenomena. But what if we break free from this preferred logic? What does war become, if it does not ... me on Jomini and his 'principles'); but we cannot even break free from these concepts because they appear to choke out any critical ...

Journal Article - Aug 7 2011 - 11:30am - 79 comments

... Prison Break: Maybe the Army's Not So Hidebound Afterall by Fred Kaplan at Slate ... Post transcript. Prison Break: Maybe the Army's Not So Hidebound Afterall by Fred Kaplan at Slate ...

Blog entry - May 11 2008 - 6:53am - 3 comments - 0 attachments

... currently arguing, then what I am suggesting is that we break it down into different phases for examination. Civil right movement ...

Blog entry - Dec 6 2011 - 9:05am - 68 comments - 0 attachments

... The Sarposa Prison Break (Kandahar, Afghanistan, 2008) by Captain Nils N. French, Canadian Army, ... India in December, 2007." The Sarposa Prison Break (Kandahar, Afghanistan, 2008). The ...

Blog entry - Apr 25 2011 - 5:45pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments

... Happy Thanksgiving! Sheila Everyone should take a break Everyone should take a break to look at an ongoing MIT study being conducted on collective ...

Journal Article - Nov 20 2011 - 7:34am - 46 comments

... by the comments made in this thread that I have decided to break my promise of no longer commenting on it. I think the question of ... has always been this way. Is it arrogance to think we can break this cycle? Perhaps. But the world is changing, so perhaps not. I ...

Journal Article - Dec 2 2010 - 10:22pm - 120 comments

... have to disrupt their freedom of movement and eventually break their will. Targeting is a small piece of the overall collective, an ... invoking the CoEs--if one really analyzes the break down between targeting and ISR it seems to break down at least currently ...

Journal Article - Jul 16 2011 - 7:50am - 57 comments

... Points of agreement: - using lethal force to break their will to endure combat defeats any armed opponent in any ... defeat insurgents by skillfully employing violence to break their will to fight, so our combat operations are severely self limited, ... logical line of effort in a counterinsurgency is to break the insurgents' will through the use of force, and he correctly ...

Blog entry - Jul 5 2011 - 8:00am - 98 comments - 0 attachments