- The Military Needs More Disruptive Thinkers
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... Note: Ben's essay has sparked a great deal of discussion and debate. I plan to continue this debate in a series of ... at least not those that conduct business at the pointy end of the spear...business world maybe, but the U.S. military, I think ...
Journal Article - Apr 5 2012 - 4:36am - 94 comments
- Waterboarding is Torture... Period (Links Updated # 9)
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... I'd like to digress from my usual analysis of insurgent strategy and tactics to speak out on an issue of grave importance ... how pure your motive, no matter how right your cause, the end does not justify the means. That type of thinking leads directly to tyranny ...
Blog post - Oct 31 2007 - 2:30pm - 215 comments - 0 attachments
- Irregular Warfare, Village Stability Operations and the Venture Capital Green Beret
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... After eleven years of non-stop general and limited war in Afghanistan, Iraq, the Philippines and ... other options and views are opened up to us. At the end of the day we have to offer them something now which will be the incentive ...
Journal Article - May 14 2012 - 4:42am - 62 comments
- End of Story
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... Photo from the "Photo-Op" The Story Comes to an End - Louis Caldera Resigns The White House Report - Internal Review Video of the Flyover Photo-Op The Photo ...
Blog post - May 9 2009 - 5:22am - 1 comment - 0 attachments
- Recent DOD Blogger's Roundtables
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... prime minister's objective for force generation by the end of the year. Transcript . Story . U.S. Army Brigadier General ...
Blog post - Apr 6 2008 - 4:42am - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Dear Boss, I Don't Just Quit, I Give Up
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... An Air Force officer tenders a letter of surrender. Editor's Note: ... UCIs, SORTS,OREs, ORIs, AEFs, IPUG, BMC, when in the end nothing that I do seems to matter? To put it another way, why should I put ...
Blog post - May 14 2012 - 4:55am - 41 comments - 0 attachments
- Understanding Iraq: Initial Assessment (Update Three: Model: Small Wars and the Theory of Games)
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... available information, I conclude that Iraq was in a state of near collapse prior to the American Invasion. Our prolonged occupation ... very well the war he was fighting--in fact by the end of 2006 there were none who understood it better--and crafted an ...
Blog post - Jan 24 2012 - 3:29pm - 41 comments - 0 attachments
- CSIS's Afghanistan IED Metrics Report Does Not Tell the Whole Story
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... there has been an exponential decrease in the number of IEDs found by the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) due to ... ways of using the data would change the result. The end result is "black box" analysis, and it is often made worse by the failure ...
Journal Article - Oct 26 2010 - 5:54am - 10 comments
- War Comes to Long An: Back Story to the Writing of a Military Classic
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... War Comes to Long An Back Story to the Writing of a Military Classic by Jeffrey Race Download the full ... War College explore the book's enduring influence. A new end chapter offers previously unpublished scholarship on the conflict. The new ...
Journal Article - Jan 3 2010 - 5:24pm - 0 comments
- Hazing is Simply Intolerable
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... and is prohibited." The recent case of Private Danny Chen, who took his own life in Afghanistan this past October ... means that instead of being the principal means to an end, and at least in contemporary Western theory, combat is reduced to ...
Blog post - Dec 23 2011 - 1:44pm - 88 comments - 0 attachments


