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... Admiral Michael Mullen shouts down the concept of "strategic communications ." Mullen implies that the concept of strategic ... never as it first appears. You see military or other DoD / McChrystal 'allies' using Tyson to educate everyone. Perhaps true but ...

Blog entry - Sep 4 2009 - 5:30pm - 9 comments - 0 attachments

... Strategy - Dr. Steven Metz, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute monthly op-ed. Despite the lavish time and ... is the political will (that applies to within and without DoD...) "We cannot provide ourselves security cheaply and easily. Those who ...

Blog entry - Aug 11 2010 - 3:47pm - 48 comments - 0 attachments

... and low drag -- it also annoys the hell out of Army and DoD leadership because they know that if there's a flap, the Agency will slide ... have the patience to sit in a hide for days on a deep strategic recon mission, most cannot do that. Shooters and SF are needed, ...

Journal Article - Dec 13 2009 - 10:25am - 77 comments

... Afghanistan, but rather is a shifting of priority at the strategic/policy level.  States and threats will always be with us, ... that deal with foreign affairs.....a merging of DOS and DOD perhaps? A creation of a what Thomas Barnett calls a "department of ...

Blog entry - Feb 4 2011 - 4:19pm - 90 comments - 0 attachments

... are currently serving as instructors in the Defense and Strategic Studies Major at the US Military Academy, West Point. Major Smith is ... we used what we had because that was the structure DoD inherited during the 1967 build-up and that guided implementation deeper ...

Journal Article - Jun 1 2010 - 4:36pm - 78 comments

... are due to the inadvertent and mostly unintended primacy DoD has achieved in foreign affairs today. That added degree of complexity did ... threats and coercion, ideology. Only then can we achieve a strategic victory -- truly eliminating an insurgency as a threat (though they ...

Blog entry - Aug 12 2010 - 7:14pm - 62 comments - 0 attachments

... for a force that is focused, not on overseas defense (i.e. DOD), but homeland defense (e.g. border security). The investment could ... take that tool away. I think it's time to do a real strategic review, not the quadrennial paper-chase that produces a vanilla ...

Journal Article - Jul 9 2010 - 8:52am - 46 comments

... and the death of Osama bin Laden, which they called new 'strategic considerations.'" Steeper Pullout Is ... contradicts their precious theories. Washington and the DOD are probably like that, too. Re: Steeper Pullout Is Raised as Option ...

Blog entry - Jun 6 2011 - 1:53am - 35 comments - 0 attachments

... in Afghanistan. But therein lies the rub. At both the strategic and tactical level, population-centric COIN is premised on long-term ... is misapplied. I lament the insitutional tendency of the DoD to gravitate toward lethal action in the face of a situation that does not ...

Journal Article - Jun 6 2010 - 6:50pm - 50 comments

... warfare, not to mention General McChrystal's recent strategic analysis of the Afghanistan war. The population dimension has also ... battle tactic. Read the 2000 RAND commissioned study (by DoD)"Swarming on the Battlefield" by Sean Edwards. NOW take the concpet ...

Journal Article - Mar 16 2010 - 3:49pm - 44 comments