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... as a nation, are having a crisis of honor. Last week the Attorney General nominee Judge Michael Mukasey refused to define ... an interrogator and a trained strap-in/strap-out team. It does not simulate drowning, as the lungs are actually filling with water. ...

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

... Obama's Afghan withdrawal speech may mark the end of the U.S. counterinsurgency experiment. Here is the latest ... our last conflict. It seems that the question is not, "Does COIN (or FID or Stability Operations) work in a nation-building ...

Blog post - Jun 23 2011 - 1:30pm - 64 comments - 0 attachments

... The Ugly Truth: Insurgencies are Brutal   by Dr. Robert ... of any intelligence preparation of the battlefiled and does not require six figure social scientists to tell us what it is, Can we ...

Journal Article - Aug 15 2010 - 7:17am - 72 comments

... A Civilian's Comprehensive Critique of the U.S. Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual...In 5-6 Pages ... approach as the only path to success and does not consider the merits of alternative strategies, thereby assuming, ... interval will become the necessary fall back option. CIA put out in the news today (part of the continuing media circus post UBL's ...

Journal Article - May 5 2011 - 9:01pm - 73 comments

... in Afghanistan) by Grant Martin Download the Full Article: A Tale of Two Design Efforts Trying to be a "good ... positive change in a complex environment- much like nature does. Unfortunately this relies on emergent, bottom-up processes and trust in ...

Journal Article - Jul 7 2011 - 4:24pm - 75 comments

... Great powers (and the US is certainly one) tend to privilege stability or order over justice or ... not have supported.  We know the argument that one does what is possible.  But justice deferred becomes a festering sore and ...

Blog post - Jan 9 2012 - 5:55am - 36 comments - 0 attachments

... I've spent much of the last six weeks out on the ground, working with Iraqi and U.S. combat units, ... not make the news (the really important stuff rarely does) but it will be the truly decisive action. When we speak of "clearing" ...

Blog post - Jun 26 2007 - 7:11am - 49 comments - 0 attachments

... What Could be Done Better The Mystery of This War For Taylor [1] the ability of the ... also seem to be misdirected and used in a way that does not produce any significant effect on insurgency.  Sir Robert ... Civilian Irregular Defence Group (CIDG) program run by the CIA and executed by SF in 1960-1961 in Vietnam (also disbanded by MACV in ...

Journal Article - Jan 5 2012 - 5:36am - 0 comments

... Deconstructing Galula Much ado surrounds the myths of T.E. Lawrence and David Galula. So much so that academics fawn, ... influential source of the doctrine they set forth. What does an informed, objective study of the basis of Galula's work reveal? ...

Blog post - Jun 5 2011 - 10:58am - 55 comments - 0 attachments

... White House staff will prove as embarrassing to the Obama administration as his previous volumes were to previous ... Triumph Forsaken) - be so proud, or so inclined? And what does that say about Petraeus - that any commander wants more troops, or ... Flawed by Design: The Evolution of the JCS, CIA, and NSC by Amy Zeigart ...

Blog post - Sep 22 2010 - 12:05pm - 44 comments - 0 attachments