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... on what might be done to prevent future suicides. Those briefings occur on a monthly basis, and I attend every one of them. Let me ... account for all of the different branches of service, DoD civilians, or family members. I work hard to help others who find ...

Blog entry - Jun 26 2009 - 8:03am - 9 comments - 0 attachments

... and it becomes self reinforcing. The Congress and DoD are not blameless in all this but the bulk of the blame -- a word of choice ... ever been with "busy work" (making slides for worthless briefings), and the busy work is distracting leaders from they should be doing. ...

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

... ("pictures exist") were leaked. Transcripts of those briefings and a few CNN stories are still available online. By April '04 ... via FOIA requests, and in fact is now hosted online at a DoD site here . More interesting (IMHO) than the report itself are the ...

Blog entry - Aug 12 2009 - 1:00pm - 67 comments - 0 attachments

... to develop TTP; the information was available in the DoD system. The problem lies far above the TTP level, however. Egos and the ... thinking about all of this in the first place. In all the briefings that I received before shipping out, I was told that, "Pashtunwali" ...

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

... seen it produced by the binder full. It gets plopped into briefings because the briefers have to have something. Good rarely flow ... to do with pollution. This is an abject failure of the DoD to learn anything at all about reconstruction. And lest we blame everything ...

Blog entry - Feb 8 2010 - 1:36pm - 79 comments - 0 attachments

... is being used by a number of the COCOMs in their formal briefings and or websites. Might be a good idea to jump on the train that has already left the train station on DoD and interagency operations. Re: Counterinsurgency as a Whole of ...

Journal Article - Jan 26 2011 - 5:54am - 79 comments

... the position of NTM-A/CSTC-A, ISAF, the U.S. Army, DoD, or USAJFKSWCS(A). A Tale of Two ... then 200 analysts will attempt a "deep dive" to provide briefings to the CG indicating the can is in fact the color purple. Just ...

Journal Article - Jul 7 2011 - 3:24pm - 75 comments

... for two and a half years. The leadership at echelons above DoD failed to mitigate the damage done to the national will by uncountered ... ever signed in to read the classified pre-war intel briefings. These people are presenting disinformation and misinformation ...

Blog entry - Dec 30 2008 - 6:30pm - 41 comments - 0 attachments

... primary purpose of metrics unfortunately is to facilitate briefings to people who will have no impact on your mission. Got it, you have ... Unfortunately we don't have elements outside of DOD that are capable of doing this at the grass roots level, so of course the ...

Journal Article - Sep 4 2011 - 6:55am - 9 comments

... system, generate thousands of Powerpoint slides and briefings, yet completely misunderstand the true nature of the complex system. ... looks like a mediocre first draft of a field manual or a DoD Directive. The problem tends to be twofold: 1. If the gap between what ...

Journal Article - Nov 16 2011 - 11:53am - 12 comments