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... but not under the auspices of the Department of Defense (DOD).  The AfPak Hands program was founded with a visionary goal in ... for such a program. Of course perhaps the new Defense Strategic Guidance and the Defense Budget Priorities do not require or ...

Journal Article - Jan 28 2012 - 7:36am - 9 comments

... play seminal roles in political (policy), institutional (strategic), and operational (tactical) realms overseas.  Historically, ... fact lost ground. By 2005, senior administration and DoD leadership realized that stability operations, including the associated ...

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

... The Department of Defense (DoD) is in a continued state of transition from the end of the Cold War. A ... just counter-WMD subject-matter experts – to develop strategic plans and policies to address adversaries within the context of major ...

Journal Article - May 22 2012 - 6:56am - 2 comments

... 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 post - Sep 4 2009 - 6:30pm - 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 post - Aug 11 2010 - 4:47pm - 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 - 11:25am - 77 comments

... balance and restraint when it counts.   With strategic knowledge, awareness enables us to make the right decisions under a ... US Army-Air Corps and CIA is 20th Century, DoD, Special Operations Command (SOCOM), allies and "18" ...

Journal Article - Jan 13 2012 - 11:28am - 35 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 post - Feb 4 2011 - 5:19pm - 90 comments - 0 attachments

... rewrite that chapter properly. But should the main strategic goal of the expeditionary counterinsurgent still remain the ... as the objective we should be seeking, but decisions above DoD ment that democracy was imposed before the countries involved were ready ...

Journal Article - Feb 6 2012 - 4:22am - 38 comments

... campaign, there appears to be little to no gains in the strategic areas that would be relevant to these missions.  Ultimately, ... not to mention larger global posture (whereas the DoD is cutting almost everywhere, especially in big Army, the Pentagon is ...

Journal Article - Feb 22 2012 - 8:03am - 2 comments