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... essays at this page as they are published . For my generation, there is one profession that captures our imagination more ... -- how relevant is Clausewitz's "center of gravity" when fighting a foe with no center of gravity?" shows me that you have a limited ...

Journal Article - Apr 5 2012 - 4:36am - 94 comments

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

... timetable to gradually shift responsibility for security to the Afghan government over the next two years. Pentagon ... one's interests abroad and to form the core for a war fighting Army if that need should arise. Japan and England had empires, so ... any unifying logic in this article. Who exactly is losing faith, and in what? What I did see in this article were a number of quotes from ...

Blog post - Mar 16 2012 - 6:21pm - 44 comments - 0 attachments

... and finance we need look outwards to this community for a conceptual framework and body of practice which can be adopted and melded ... the surveyed people in Helmand believed the Taliban were fighting for commercial rather than ideological reasons. The study also ...

Journal Article - May 14 2012 - 4:42am - 62 comments

... 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 post - Jul 16 2007 - 5:22am - 4 comments - 0 attachments

... Editor's Note:  For background and history of the "Dear Boss" letter, see this post ... earth will never be fully responsive to the needs of those fighting at ground or sea level. For those who would say I do not understand ...

Blog post - May 14 2012 - 4:55am - 41 comments - 0 attachments

... go of how we are used to thinking, and embrace uncertainty for a bit. If any of the post-modern and highly abstract concepts offered in ... and what we need to continue is ascertaining a new type of fighting method within various uncertainties.” P 141. “[military ...

Journal Article - Aug 7 2011 - 12:30pm - 83 comments

... members of his platoon (a platoon he had been part of for less than 70 days), has brought to the forefront the issue of hazing in the ... Our Soldiers have enough to worry about in combat while fighting violent and ruthless enemies who use deceit, tyranny, fear, and ...

Blog post - Dec 23 2011 - 1:44pm - 88 comments - 0 attachments

... the educated professional elite who have been working for the international community – they are the Afghan antithesis of the ... - we didn't want the various militias and warlords fighting another civil war as they had in the 1990's. This was also a fear ...

Journal Article - May 21 2012 - 5:48am - 29 comments

... embarassing swing bands, etc), fails to properly care for its people (this is not a money problem - most officers are vastly ... Many of that generation of young officers are good at fighting as officers. Why should we try to get them to learn all those other ...

Blog post - May 14 2012 - 4:55am - 19 comments - 0 attachments