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Blog entry - Jun 9 2011 - 1:42am - 0 comments - 0 attachments

... 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 - 7:34am - 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 entry - Jul 25 2010 - 3:27am - 47 comments - 0 attachments

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

... (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 - 5:54am - 79 comments

... assume a more central role in our Afghanistan strategy, it is essential that we approach the challenge informed by our experiences in ... David Petraeus's view about creating security in Iraq: "Hard is not hopeless." Going Tribal: Enlisting Afghanistan's Tribes (Full ...

Journal Article - Aug 2 2009 - 7:44am - 28 comments

... Those skeptics may have forgotten that counterinsurgency is always slow and grinding - "like eating soup with a knife", in the words of ... large numbers of well-trained and usually foreign troops; hard as it is, clearing is the easy part. Success requires local troops to hold ...

Blog entry - Jun 20 2010 - 7:33pm - 19 comments - 0 attachments

... with considerable regret, but also with certainty that it is the right thing for our mission in Afghanistan, for our military and for our ... Dismissal - New York Times From Iraq to a Hard Place - Wall Street Journal Strategy Remains the Same - ...

Blog entry - Jun 24 2010 - 4:35am - 31 comments - 0 attachments

... current internationally agreed strategy for Afghanistan is unlikely to work as it has been based on flawed assumptions or hopes. ... that TTP and strategy have to be viewed together, I have a hard time calling anything the Soviets did a success in light of their eventual ...

Journal Article - Mar 4 2010 - 3:31am - 33 comments

... objective of the very Taliban attacks he wanted to watch? Is a journalist guided by virtues higher than those of patriotism or ... and my advantage is that i can tell stories that are hard to come by any comparison to WWII or the nazis always shows a lack of ...

Blog entry - Oct 29 2008 - 6:12pm - 33 comments - 0 attachments