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Journal Article - Aug 30 2008 - 6:01pm - 0 comments

... Author’s Note: Before readers pull their hair out in frustration at yet another ‘Design’ article with too much ... "Population As Complex Adaptive Systems - A Case Study of Corruption in Afghanistan." I would argue that the intelligence method, the ...

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

... Traditionally, we prefer to quantify revolutions as ending in a win, loss, or negotiated settlement. [1]   While this framework is ... they know and want to modernize their countries. Corruption, however, is what stops them. Corruption--and other not-so-modern ...

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

... One Cell Phone at a Time: Countering Corruption in Afghanistan by Dan Rice and Guy Filippelli Download the ...

Journal Article - Sep 2 2010 - 6:17pm - 1 comment

... presents a scenario for resolution of the Afghan conflict in a manner that achieves U.S. objectives in Afghanistan. This scenario takes ... does not equal less insurgency in Afghanistan). - Less corruption will translate into weaker individuals and systems in the current ...

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

... Myth: Counterinsurgency - Conn Hallinan, Foreign Policy in Focus. There are moments that define a war. Just such a one occurred ... public good, the base or foolish compliances of ambition, corruption, or infatuation. As avenues to foreign influence in innumerable ...

Blog entry - Jul 25 2010 - 3:27am - 47 comments - 0 attachments

... Army Worries about 'Toxic Leaders' in Ranks by Greg Jaffe, Washington Post . BLUF: "A major U.S. Army survey ... the environment that is so toxic. Kind of like corruption in the Afghan government. It is the system that is toxic, and that ...

Blog entry - Jun 26 2011 - 6:33am - 101 comments - 0 attachments

... violence against the Afghan population, as did the Nazis in occupied Russia. Neither was attempting to create an environment where the ... Afghan patronage into a Ponzi scheme of control and corruption vested in a single man; and that creates in effect a monopoly of ...

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

... Combined Arms Center Blog. When you are a stranger in a strange land, you need to be aware of, and hold on to, and be proud of ... directly and indirectly influence security, development, corruption, justice, governance and the licit economy. On the other hand, ISAF ...

Blog entry - Mar 12 2010 - 4:09pm - 91 comments - 0 attachments

... problem with the COIN narrative that developed at least in US Army circles since the end of the Vietnam War. It was, and is, premised ... levels, incapacity to deliver rule of law, massive corruption in mid- to high-level government, and an APRP process that is wildly ...

Journal Article - Dec 14 2010 - 7:37pm - 83 comments