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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 post - Jul 31 2011 - 1:25pm - 11 comments - 0 attachments

... 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 post - Oct 31 2007 - 2:30pm - 215 comments - 0 attachments

... economy) and to postulate on what is best for a given culture, society or people. A lot of good comes from such, many ideas are ... challenges. Maybe Green Berets are the free-market warriors who are also of mind to understand the self-interests of those at the ...

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

... -- just a change in attitudes and the organizational culture in our Army. Recent experiences in Iraq illustrate how important it is ... and analysis is always a credit to the hard work of our warriors, and the bad can always be used as a learning tool. I understand that ...

Blog post - Feb 3 2008 - 1:50pm - 26 comments - 0 attachments

... three of these prerequisites, particularly in a military culture where lethal means and capability is a mechanism available to all ... I mean- come on- we even have to remind ourselves we are warriors, for goodness sakes! So, to wrap-up- the loss of one soldier to ...

Blog post - Dec 23 2011 - 1:44pm - 88 comments - 0 attachments

... 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 post - Jun 26 2011 - 7:33am - 101 comments - 0 attachments

... complete victory is secured The modern day COIN warriors, including the authors of the Counterinsurgency FM 3-24, have merely ... might have brought governance success--presuming that the culture of the various Afghan ethnic populations could have been radically ...

Journal Article - Mar 13 2012 - 11:56am - 35 comments

... 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 - 10:31am - 1 comment

... makes a great distinction between its scholars and its warriors will have its laws made by cowards and its wars fought by ... national interests through various means, and how our culture and preparation for war actually shape the American strategy. ... one that has rarely been obtainable.  American culture, whether it is through movies, books, games, or folklore, values ...

Journal Article - Nov 17 2011 - 9:17am - 9 comments

... in a general sense, the more focused an individual and a culture are on justice, the greater that the aggrieved play in an ... involved in a counterinsurgency campaign in a non-Western culture), the logic of motivation may be translucent or opaque: logic has a ... and Blood: The Lethal Legacy of West Africa's Regional Warriors , New York: Human Rights Watch, 2005, p. 13. [7] ...

Journal Article - Jan 27 2012 - 5:53am - 44 comments