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... How to Fix USAID by Joshua Foust, The Atlantic . BLUF: "A broken aid agency helps ...

Blog entry - Jul 7 2011 - 6:48pm - 3 comments - 0 attachments

... How does your organization think, and how does it not think? ... or become a step within a planning process… to think about Design requires us to think from a different perspective - a ...

Journal Article - Aug 7 2011 - 11:30am - 79 comments

... How Afghanistan Ends: A Political-Military Path to Peace by Linda Robinson Download the Full Article: How ...

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

... A primer to help move past COIN, CT, FID, SFA and start talking strategy to confront ... community to rethink the existing assumptions and relearn how to counter insurgencies. [5]   Moreover, over the past decade, ...

Blog entry - Dec 6 2011 - 9:05am - 68 comments - 0 attachments

... solutions. At every echelon, the Army has adapted to the complex situations within the Operational Environment (OE) by revising ... made--I could go on and on about the decisions phase or how decisions are made, but I don't believe we need a "D" to tell commanders to ...

Journal Article - Jul 16 2011 - 7:50am - 57 comments

... horrible leaders. From my vantage point I think it's time to start resetting year groups and/or pushing promotion timelines back toward ... it at happening at the Division level, then get word about how it was happening at some BCTs. But now I see it firsthand at BNs. ...

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

... Killing Your Way to Control by William F. Owen British Army Review, Spring 2011 ... article doesn't address in regards to Afghanistan: - How do we deal with the safehaven in Pakistan? Is it possible to militarily ...

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

... When you are a stranger in a strange land, you need to be aware of, and hold on to, and be proud of your culture. In my experience ... fighting words to me." I asked my Pashtun buddy to show me how westerners greet each other. He extended his hand in a wave. I pointed out ...

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

... their paywall until Feb 13, courtesy of WPR.  Thanks to Judah, Hampton, and all.  And thanks, Bob. Guest ... Should the U.S. stand by governments regardless of how far their domestic policies are from those espoused by the ...

Blog entry - Feb 4 2011 - 4:19pm - 90 comments - 0 attachments

... lessons.  They key insight is not that COIN failed to live up to the claims of its advocates.  It’s that the claims ... ranking people haven't been thinking about anything but how to swing that hammer. Carl: I agree with you that Carl: I ...

Blog entry - Dec 6 2011 - 7:07am - 48 comments - 0 attachments