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Blog post - Jun 9 2011 - 2:42am - 0 comments - 0 attachments

... and Congressional records, this paper finds that VSO/ALP is having a positive impact on security and governance at the local level in ... execution of VSO/ALP, though specific funding figures are hard to pinpoint.  However, this much is certain: in addition to the ...

Journal Article - Mar 27 2012 - 4:39am - 5 comments

... all the way around. I wonder if poor decision making is a nice way of labeling incompetence because there's a fair amount of that ... showing me what egg to suck, how to suck the egg, and how hard or soft to suck the egg. Whatever happened to the old saying, "Staff ...

Blog post - Jun 26 2011 - 7:33am - 101 comments - 0 attachments

... and with U.S. involvement in Afghanistan winding down, it is perhaps time to examine again the American way of war in order to evaluate ... LICs other than that they exist and that they aren't as hard or interesting as HICs. As an Armor officer commissioning as Iraq kicked ...

Journal Article - Nov 17 2011 - 9:17am - 9 comments

... the limits of the female exclusion in combat policy?  Is it time to adjust the policy? As noted ... we should try to investigate why women and men have such a hard time bonding at the small-unit team level, especially when they are below ...

Journal Article - Nov 20 2011 - 8:34am - 46 comments

... who contribute to SWJ. However, Mr Hallinan's article is a lolly-scramble of mixed history and he has picked the eyes out of COIN in ... is still a dangerous, messy place, with much hard work yet to be done by the Afghan government, but it is a condition that ...

Blog post - Jul 25 2010 - 4:27am - 47 comments - 0 attachments

... the U.S. continued to provide air and logistic support, is a “counter-factual” question that cannot be answered. Few ... time I got there (1969) we pursued the VC and tried very hard to leave the NVA to USARV. My point being that, while there probably were ...

Journal Article - Mar 23 2012 - 9:00am - 21 comments

... (COIN) arithmetic suggested by David Galula is now the conventional wisdom: 80% political action and only 20% military. ... 20% of population create 80% of the problems... It is hard to disagree with conventional wisdom or the wisdom of crowds... but it is ...

Journal Article - Jan 26 2011 - 6:54am - 79 comments

... building in Vietnam and Afghanistan; a look that does not leave one with much optimism. Click here ... our states were made as protection rackets.  It is the height of lunacy that we should expect that actors in troubled states of ... worth of cars (the country had a few miles of hard-topped roads)?  When a job lot of American cheese was imported to ...

Journal Article - Feb 27 2012 - 5:57am - 8 comments

... An insurgent movement is a war for the people. It stands to reason that government measures must be ... part of the "Joint" concept. Old SF in the mid 80s fought hard to get the first BG assigned as the SF Cmdr (he had to come out of the SF ...

Journal Article - Jan 5 2012 - 6:07pm - 15 comments