- How We Became a Nation of Warriors
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... How We Became a Nation of Warriors : Over the Last Century, Militarism Has Warped our Foreign Policy ... and values. When your nation is hell-bent on changing the culture of other nations whether they wish to change or not, and does it ...
Blog entry - Jul 31 2011 - 12:25pm - 11 comments - 0 attachments
- Waterboarding is Torture... Period (Links Updated # 9)
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... set by every generation of American statesmen and warriors that came before yours and mine, against Americans ordering, ... or the other. They see America as, at best a competing culture turned soft and are proud to be different, or, at worst, they see ... laws forbidding its use. So, as laws can differ across culture, time and place, there is no universal or absolute fact of the matter. ...
Blog entry - Oct 31 2007 - 1:30pm - 215 comments - 0 attachments
- Army Worries about 'Toxic Leaders' in Ranks
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... an officer or NCO does NOT make you a leader), then the culture will on the way to "recovery" (i.e. reform). Re: Army Worries about ... You asked a good question about how we manage our wounded warriors, and it has been my experience that the Army works patiently with them ...
Blog entry - Jun 26 2011 - 6:33am - 101 comments - 0 attachments
- Leadership of Cyber Warriors: Enduring Principles and New Directions
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... Leadership of Cyber Warriors: Enduring Principles and New Directions by Gregory Conti ... and understands the personality types, creativity, culture, motivations, and intellectual capability of cyber warriors. ...
Journal Article - Jul 11 2011 - 9:31am - 1 comment
- It's the Tribes? That's Stupid.
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... need to be aware of, and hold on to, and be proud of your culture. In my experience you can become susceptible to myth and unfounded ... above their station in life, the tribes are full of mighty warriors, and it is the Elders who should be in power. If this were the case, ...
Blog entry - Mar 12 2010 - 4:09pm - 91 comments - 0 attachments
- General McChrystal Recalled (Updated)
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... likes of Dave Perkins, Tony Thomas, etc. Time to get some warriors in there instead of intellectuals. Re: General McChrystal Recalled ... part of COIN; the population. To a tribally oriented culture the issue of saving face is significant. President Obama has apologized ...
Blog entry - Jun 23 2010 - 5:04am - 89 comments - 0 attachments
- Thinking Critically about COIN and Creatively about Strategy and War
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... 2014- and that will be just fine for the conventional warriors and most of our populace. But someone will surely be involved in some ... of AQI and the Taliban. http://www.miller-mccune.com/culture-society/the-physics-of-terror-25955/ Re: Thinking Critically ...
Journal Article - Dec 14 2010 - 7:37pm - 83 comments
- A Tale of Two Design Efforts (and why they both failed in Afghanistan)
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... towards a more informed/feasible endstate due to the culture/structure/traditions of SF. I have a few examples from my own ... to ask rhetorically - was LIC doctrine so broke that our warriors had to reinvent it all in the field ? Admittedly, like many others, I ...
Journal Article - Jul 7 2011 - 3:24pm - 75 comments
- Does The United States Still Need USSOCOM? (Updated)
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... needs and should have a bigger role after you change their culture and yes, the inter-agency environment will continue to expand because ... pro JSOC and he has certainly paid the price for the true warriors. Re: Does The United States Still Need USSOCOM? (Updated) ...
Journal Article - Dec 13 2009 - 10:25am - 77 comments
- The US in Afghanistan: Follow Sun Tzu rather than Clausewitz to Victory
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... on jus ad bellum (just cause for war). American military culture is largely responsible for the first two contextual biases, while ... that the SOF operators arent highly qualified and useful warriors, or that it wouldnt be a good thing to have more Taliban commanders ...
Journal Article - Dec 11 2010 - 9:53am - 67 comments


