- Waterboarding is Torture... Period (Links Updated # 9)
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... as a nation, are having a crisis of honor. Last week the Attorney General nominee Judge Michael Mukasey refused to define ... were used to form the interrogation techniques used by the US army and the CIA for its terror suspects. What was not mentioned in ...
Blog entry - Oct 31 2007 - 1:30pm - 215 comments - 0 attachments
- DOD to Drop Social Security Numbers from ID Cards
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... Air Force Maj. Monica M. Matoush, a Pentagon spokeswoman. The effort is part of a larger plan to protect service members and other DOD ... is one of the first offered towards comprehensive reform by Gregory Conti, Dominic Larkin, David Raymond, and Edward Sobiesk in SWJ ...
Blog entry - Apr 3 2011 - 9:51am - 3 comments - 0 attachments
- Design Theory and the Military’s Understanding of Our Complex World
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... it not think? Download the Full Article Author’s Note: Before readers pull their hair ... whether postmodern social science offers any better tools by which expected and actual outcomes of one's own actions may be measured ? ...
Journal Article - Aug 7 2011 - 11:30am - 79 comments
- DoD’s Combat Exclusion Policies Limit Commanders and Strain Our Current Forces
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... Have FST and CSTs teams pushed the limits of the female exclusion in combat policy? Is it time to adjust ... “Risk Rule” was rescinded on 13 January 1994 by then Secretary of Defense Les Aspin and was replaced by the “direct ...
Journal Article - Nov 20 2011 - 7:34am - 46 comments
- How Afghanistan Ends
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... Ends: A Political-Military Path to Peace by Linda Robinson Download the Full Article: How Afghanistan Ends This paper presents a scenario ...
Journal Article - Dec 2 2010 - 10:22pm - 120 comments
- The COIN Approach to Mexican Drug Cartels: Square Peg in a Round Hole
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... A counterinsurgency strategy based on the now-famous Field Manual 3-24, written under the auspices of then-LTGs David ... and Iraq to Mexico. The level of violence perpetrated by or on behalf of Mexican drug cartels [1] has reached unprecedented ...
Journal Article - Dec 27 2011 - 5:10am - 42 comments
- The Targeting Process: D3A and F3EAD
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... The Targeting Process: D3A and F3EAD by Jimmy A. Gomez Download the Full Article: The Targeting ... discussion was more valuable then subjectively assigning numbers. The senior NCOs loved it, our non-thinking officers couldn't stand it, ...
Journal Article - Jul 16 2011 - 7:50am - 57 comments
- Army Worries about 'Toxic Leaders' in Ranks
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... Army Worries about 'Toxic Leaders' in Ranks by Greg Jaffe, Washington Post . BLUF: "A major U.S. Army survey of ... and sergeants had directly observed a "toxic" leader in the last year and that about 20 percent of the respondents said that they had ...
Blog entry - Jun 26 2011 - 6:33am - 101 comments - 0 attachments
- To Design or Not to Design (Part Five)
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... and Design: How Analogies and Design Theory Resist the Military Ritual of Codification by Ben Zweibelson Download The Full Article: To Design or Not ...
Journal Article - Apr 15 2011 - 4:58am - 35 comments
- Killing Your Way to Control
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... Killing Your Way to Control by William F. Owen British Army Review, Spring 2011 Download the Full Article: Killing Your Way to Control The population is not ...
Blog entry - Jul 5 2011 - 8:00am - 98 comments - 0 attachments


