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The Military Needs More Disruptive Thinkers

... and do not reflect the official policy of position of the Department of the Army, Department of Defense, or the U.S. Government One can argue - and I do One can ...

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

Defense Department Establishes Civilian Expeditionary Workforce

... Defense Department Establishes Civilian Expeditionary Workforce By Gerry J. ...

Blog post - Jan 27 2009 - 8:06pm - 2 comments - 0 attachments

To Design or Not to Design (Part Two)

... from doing nothing but COIN for a decade back to the HIC/defense/LIC phases of old- the FSO rotation is back- but why? Builder ... 9/11 we have allowed other organizations like the State Department to linger in the past and not feel compelled to transform to meet ...

Journal Article - Mar 11 2011 - 10:14am - 72 comments

Implementing COIN Doctrine in the Absence of a Legitimate State

... necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the Department of the Army, the Department of Defense, or the U.S. Government. Re: Implementing COIN Doctrine in the ...

Journal Article - Oct 13 2010 - 2:39pm - 60 comments

COIN of the Socio-Cultural Realm

... of legitimacy. Introduction The U.S. Department of Defense has long used computational models to support military planning at all ...

Journal Article - Feb 28 2012 - 5:41am - 13 comments

The Fallacies of Fourth and Fifth Generation Warfare

... in the presence of civilians, against civilians, in defense of civilians. Civilians are the targets, objectives to be won, as much ... taught over the last nine years to do work via by team or department. SWJ recently had an article referencing just this intel problem ...

Journal Article - Sep 13 2010 - 5:39pm - 50 comments

The Strategic Opportunity in our Senior Foreign Official Advisory Mission

... we invest in ten weeks of pre-deployment training, convene Department of the Army level boards to select advisory team chiefs, and provide ... processes for advisors to SFOs with Department of Defense, multinational, and interagency colleagues, similar opinions to those ...

Journal Article - Feb 15 2012 - 6:13am - 8 comments

Ten Years Gone

... deployed to the Vietnam Theater assigned to Operations Department positions, giving me a good view of operational activities. By our ... to continue the war and continue sacrificing its sons in defense of a foreign country. A foreign country Americans perceived (right or ...

Journal Article - Jun 22 2011 - 8:45am - 40 comments

The Missing Operational Level

... to achieve strategic objectives.”  US Department of Defense The above US definition appropriately describes the problems ...

Journal Article - Feb 7 2012 - 2:21pm - 1 comment

The Right Tool for the Job: An Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Counterinsurgency Principles against Criminal Insurgency

... of a robust counterinsurgency doctrine, many U.S. defense and law enforcement scholars have designated the Mexican conflict an ... the destruction of the DAS (Administrative Security Department) headquarters in Bogota. [68] In an attempt on the life of then ...

Resource - Feb 11 2012 - 10:17am - 0 comments - 1 attachment