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... Post Cold War Age, does it make sense to talk in terms of conventional and unconventional war? What is ... Info? While "conventional vs. While "conventional vs. unconventional" are the juxtaposed terms that ...

Blog post - Jan 3 2012 - 5:30pm - 19 comments - 0 attachments

... In my work I am constantly listening to the non-college vs college debate. The non-college people believe the college people are soft ... were established by young people usually at odds with the conventional wisdom. History suggests that it is a reasonable position. ...

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

... where the system cannot or will not, the application of conventional and unconventional thinking and the willingness to cannibalize ... How Soccer Explains the World by Franklin Foer Jihad vs McWorld by Benjamin Barber Banker to the Poor (Microlending and the ...

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

... Clausewitz so much, why it works in some traditional and conventional state-on-state conflicts, and why it does not in other conflict. ... to universally apply, or is he limited to purely human-vs-human conflict (which I would still argue he mostly works on state-vs-state ...

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

... reappropriation of funds and efforts, and to challenge the conventional wisdoms created by institutional stakeholders to defend the status ... Entropy, So what do you propose? Disruption vs Disruptive There are many examples of disruptive change, both within ...

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

... in the opposing camp(s). COL Gentile might argue that conventional warfare done right (with the appropriate number and type of ... the allied facts that tasks vary widely (e.g. Desert Storm vs. OIF 1), that conditions vary even more widely (e.e those same two ...

Blog post - Jan 4 2010 - 1:54pm - 89 comments - 0 attachments

... are bad for US forces but "the ratio of enemy killed vs. security forces killed may tell you how aggressive and confident an Afghan ... Amland and Gian Gentile who might publicly challenge the conventional wisdom in play. Thank you, Mr. Exum for keeping the contrarians in ...

Blog post - Feb 8 2010 - 2:36pm - 79 comments - 0 attachments

... State Department and USAID are still very much focused on conventional warfare, conventional diplomacy or conventional development. You ... by doing that sometimes we prevent solutions (large FOB vs. living among the population), and we tend to embrace high technology ...

Journal Article - May 11 2012 - 6:05am - 25 comments

... FM 3-24 lacks that understanding. Talk of development vs counterguerrilla, populace "control" vs populace "separation", etc without ... dudes have taken everybody else off the hook. Time for the conventional forces to close down. COIN was never what was needed. What's ...

Journal Article - May 5 2011 - 9:01pm - 73 comments

... but are instead committed to something resembling a conventional war, inevitably, many of the principles of COIN doctrine will come ... Concept. The document, in my mind, may put the COIN vs. MCO debate to rest or at least reframe the discussion. If you look at ...

Blog post - Sep 16 2010 - 12:47pm - 59 comments - 0 attachments