- Waterboarding is Torture... Period (Links Updated # 9)
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... in the media (be it TV, newspapers, radio etc.) and tomorrow before Congress. Luckily many in the Country (and abroad), including ... them by their arms, were forcing them to lie on blistering hot surfaces, were keeping them naked in frigid cells, were denying them needed ...
Blog entry - Oct 31 2007 - 1:30pm - 215 comments - 0 attachments
- Hot, Tomorrow...
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Author(s): SWJ Editors Teaser: The US Army/USMC Counterinsurgency Center is pleased to host Assoc ...
Blog entry - Mar 10 2010 - 7:38pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- A Combined Arms Response to "Death of the Armor Corps"
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... and Senior NonComs? Could 3rd ID execute a Thunder Run tomorrow if tasked? Sure. However, even in 2003, with a unit well versed in ... as micro-management and I say that with a dozen CAs into hot LZs and more into cold ones plus a slew of hours just boring holes in the ...
Journal Article - Jun 1 2010 - 4:36pm - 78 comments
- Implementing COIN Doctrine in the Absence of a Legitimate State
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... 70% of ADRP's projects were in areas that were too hot for the military to enter, and the project completion rate was 100%. At ... yesterday's mujahedin is today's Taliban commander and is tomorrow's government-appointed village chief. The extreme example, of course, ...
Journal Article - Oct 13 2010 - 1:39pm - 60 comments
- Three Cups of BS? (Updates 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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... team. Don't confuse today's operations in Afghanistan with tomorrow's operation in some other location. We need to maintain a full ... of senior military officers to go with whatever's "hot," with whatever's in the news, rather than with their own people who've got ...
Blog entry - Apr 18 2011 - 7:06pm - 59 comments - 0 attachments
- The US Army's Shift to Irregular Warfare
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... formal holistic effort can be made to confront today's and tomorrow's hybrid threats. Let's examine what the Army has done in the last few ... transformation would certainly seem to be THE very hot thing. Consider the investments being made by defense contractors under ...
Journal Article - Apr 7 2010 - 1:49pm - 52 comments
- Population-Centric COIN in Afghanistan
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... could change - daily. What worked today might not work tomorrow, etc... I'll still work for you brother. Keep up the good work. ... measure, much as stormwater peters out of a ditch in the hot months to a meaningless trickle." Some of that is true, but most of the ...
Journal Article - May 25 2010 - 2:05pm - 60 comments
- The Great COIN Debate: Time for a Change?
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... the Cold War; I think the U.S. successfully prevented a hot war, and set conditions that allowed the populaces of Eastern Europe, ... has run out, and that the details of the vision are needed tomorrow. Re: The Great COIN Debate: Time for a Change? Bill, ...
Blog entry - Jan 19 2009 - 2:26am - 42 comments - 0 attachments
- Beyond FM 3-24
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... the Bolivian forces that got Che'(Bill Moore owes me a "hot" beer and a "cold" hot dog over that one). Point being when the CIA/SF/Covert Action were the main ... a village today, and then give it back to the enemy tomorrow (that can be months or a couple of years) if we don't aggressively ...
Journal Article - Dec 17 2010 - 8:57pm - 38 comments
- The Wrong War: An Interview with Bing West (Updated)
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... the Way Out of Afghanistan will be out on the bookshelf tomorrow. We asked Bing, a longtime supporter of Small Wars Journal , for ... subsequent posts have definitely touched a few emotional hot buttons that I thought were numb after years of participating and watching ...
Journal Article - Feb 21 2011 - 1:31pm - 33 comments


