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... articles published in ARMY magazine from October 2010 to March 2011, plus the speech he delivered at AUSA's 2011 Winter Symposium in ... against the insurgents was never really in question, just how long it would take. Still Malaya is an example of successful ...

Blog entry - Apr 9 2011 - 5:48pm - 68 comments - 0 attachments

... 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 entry - Oct 31 2007 - 1:30pm - 215 comments - 0 attachments

... 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

... 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

... Win Wars? Today's General Politicks and Does P.R., Too is the title of a ... this 24/7, 365 demand cycle, you lose the opportunity to sit back and think, to take stock of what is important and what is ... maybe I am not on their distro list. Might you know how I can get onto it? Take care. gian Re: Win Wars? I'm not ...

Blog entry - Aug 12 2010 - 7:14pm - 62 comments - 0 attachments

... 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

... of the female exclusion in combat policy?  Is it time to adjust the policy? As noted widely ... Commands (RCs)?  What does this tell us about how to structure and use this resource in the future? (e.g., mix of male to ...

Journal Article - Nov 20 2011 - 7:34am - 46 comments

... major, has won praise at the highest levels for his effort to radically deepen the U.S. military's involvement with Afghan tribes -- and ... piece, in terms of background on MAJ Gant's paper and how it was received by certain members of DoD leadership. Interesting to say ...

Blog entry - Jan 17 2010 - 4:59am - 46 comments - 0 attachments

... Despite assertions to the contrary, the violence, drug trafficking and lawlessness that we see in ... Robert C. Bonner, “The New Cocaine Cowboys:  How to Defeat Mexico’s Drug Cartels,”  Foreign Affairs , ...

Journal Article - Dec 27 2011 - 5:10am - 42 comments

... when Special Envoy Richard Holbrooke and U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Karl Eikenberry helicoptered into Marjah for a photo op with the ... The guerrilla maintains that information advantage. It is how he survives (McCormick, NPS, 2008). Even the best researchers must be ...

Blog entry - Jul 25 2010 - 3:27am - 47 comments - 0 attachments