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... to be used on Al Qaeda suspects. Scarborough said, "For those who don't know, waterboarding is what we did to Khalid Sheikh ... theirs. The members of Al Qaeda generally think they are fighting the good fight and doing right, just as people here think so by ...

Blog entry - Oct 31 2007 - 1:30pm - 215 comments - 0 attachments

... Stopped in at Borders for my weekly fix and came across Ralph Peters' latest anthology. ( Wars of ... Policy Research Institute of Philadelphia, PA. Re: Fighting for Faith Prof. Metz, I appreciate your contributions here at ...

Blog entry - Jul 16 2007 - 4:22am - 4 comments - 0 attachments

... How Afghanistan Ends This paper presents a scenario for resolution of the Afghan conflict in a manner that achieves U.S. objectives ... There are very few places left where populaces are fighting to hold their traditions, more often the fight is over power and the ...

Journal Article - Dec 2 2010 - 10:22pm - 120 comments

... David Petraeus and James Mattis in 2006, is inappropriate for Mexico.  Despite assertions to the ... will attest.  Mexican cartel members are no more fighting for Santa Muerte than Mexican bus drivers are speeding for the ...

Journal Article - Dec 27 2011 - 5:10am - 42 comments

... to Afghanistan Karl Eikenberry helicoptered into Marjah for a photo op with the locals. It was to be a capstone event, the fruit of a ... Plato, Phaedrus For the practitioners who grew up fighting these wars, we've gone from practice to theory. Many of us are field ...

Blog entry - Jul 25 2010 - 3:27am - 47 comments - 0 attachments

... of the respondents said that they had worked directly for one... The survey also found that 97 percent of officers and sergeants had ... hours, with your formation still intact and ready to dig fighting positions, establish a patrol base, etc. Prancing in front of the Div ...

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

... People like Luttwak, Peters, and Scheuer have proposed it for a number of years. The question is whether it is politically feasible for ... The fact is, a lot of Catholics in Ireland stopped fighting because of a reconciliation process. That process was in part brought ...

Blog entry - Jul 5 2011 - 8:00am - 98 comments - 0 attachments

... inclined to walk away from a fight and "them sounded like fighting words to me." I asked my Pashtun buddy to show me how westerners greet ... too much of military orientalism. We seem to be looking for the Jean Jacque Rousseau "noble savage." Or in modern terms, I would call ...

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

... Galula's work on counterinsurgency and its applicability for today's COIN campaigns and you seem to identify a special kind of lesson or ... are a contest for political control. So we are stuck with fighting an insurgency. If the Colonel has a better methodology for ...

Journal Article - Dec 14 2010 - 7:37pm - 83 comments

... Command? How Effective Has USSOCOM Been in Fighting the Long War? by Yasotay Download the full article: ... This legislation provided unity of command and control for Special Operations Forces and elevated Special Operations to a near peer ...

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