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

Journal Article - Dec 2 2010 - 11:22pm - 120 comments

... Policy : Topics include: 1) By tossing the COIN to Afghanistan, Obama can now aim at Pakistan 2) Are the Pentagon's plans ... a favorable negotiated settlement. Nor can anyone be sure how permanent the apparent progress in stabilizing southern Afghanistan really ...

Blog post - Jun 23 2011 - 1:30pm - 64 comments - 0 attachments

... Disruptive thinkers: the way to reinvigorate a senseless bureaucracy or a threat to the establishment?  ... say, an iPhone .  Or, an intellect that recognizes how secondary and tertiary networks are often more valuable than first-order ...

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

... I'd like to digress from my usual analysis of insurgent strategy and tactics to speak ... in most articles was that SERE was designed to show how an evil totalitarian, enemy would use torture at the slightest whim. If ...

Blog post - Oct 31 2007 - 2:30pm - 215 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 - 12:30pm - 83 comments

... The real Civil War is about to begin Assessment Given the ... and influence networks that pertain to the mission and how to act through them to take best advantage of the inherent situational ...

Blog post - Jan 24 2012 - 3:29pm - 41 comments - 0 attachments

... An attempt to answer the question:  What problem are we trying to solve? ... focus on bureaucratic minutiae.  They question how they can be trusted so completely in a combat environment, but are treated ...

Journal Article - Apr 9 2012 - 5:00am - 61 comments

... Kilcullen (I): Here's What Not to Measure in a COIN Campaign - Tom Ricks at FP's Best Defense. ... Kilcullen is at his best, he is unexcelled at discussing how to wage a counterinsurgency campaign. And I think the Australian infantry ...

Blog post - Feb 8 2010 - 2:36pm - 79 comments - 0 attachments

... positive alternative. But what is the alternative and how do we realise it? Who? – the educated professional elite ... is centre of mass for success. The insurgents have access to sustainable funding through the taxation of opium. The Afghan government ...

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

... military officers, analysts and academics, are pushing to have the U.S. mission in Afghanistan significantly narrowed in scope. Their ... in the hands of the Taliban. Frankly, I am not sure how the suppression operations going on currently in Afghanistan or a ramped up ...

Blog post - Jan 12 2011 - 8:44am - 71 comments - 0 attachments