- A Comprehensive Approach to Improving US Security Force Assistance Efforts
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... A Comprehensive Approach to Improving US Security Force Assistance Efforts by Lieutenant Colonel ... experience with similar requirements did not result in institutionalized capabilities that would have forestalled major problems. ...
Journal Article - Mar 19 2009 - 7:51pm - 3 comments
- Waterboarding is Torture... Period (Links Updated # 9)
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... Republican Congressman Joe Scarborough quickly spoke out in its favor . On his morning television broadcast, he asserted, without any ... to say. I am skeptical that treatment of prisoners improving as wars draw to a close is a widespread phenomenon. The treatment of ...
Blog post - Oct 31 2007 - 2:30pm - 215 comments - 0 attachments
- Irregular Warfare, Village Stability Operations and the Venture Capital Green Beret
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... Capturing the investor's mindset in special operations. After eleven years of ... investor further refining and defining the asset and improving valuation. At the base are companies with unstable valuations which ...
Journal Article - May 14 2012 - 4:42am - 62 comments
- Improving in War
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... Improving in War: Military Adaptation and the British in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, ...
Blog post - Sep 4 2010 - 9:14pm - 3 comments - 0 attachments
- Design Theory and the Military’s Understanding of Our Complex World
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... Author’s Note: Before readers pull their hair out in frustration at yet another ‘Design’ article with too much ... still throwing tons of effort/money/defense contractors at improving ISR but even that effort is failing as it does not answer just how ...
Journal Article - Aug 7 2011 - 12:30pm - 83 comments
- Ten Points for the FM 3-24 Counterinsurgency Manual Conference
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... Context and nuance : Focus changes on updating and improving the understanding of insurgency itself. This will put current content into a more appropriate context and nuance in general, and address the primary shortfall of the current manual. All ...
Blog post - May 7 2012 - 5:12pm - 43 comments - 0 attachments
- Hazing is Simply Intolerable
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... Army Command Policy, states "hazing is fundamentally in opposition to our values and is prohibited." ... cannot do is not a wrong choice and could lend to improving our military long term. A pipe dream? Perhaps, but do we not expect ...
Blog post - Dec 23 2011 - 1:44pm - 88 comments - 0 attachments
- Bringing Real Life to American Strategy in Afghanistan
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... Cordesman suggestion that we continue to muddle through in Afghanistan. Anthony Cordesman’s ... focused on neutralizing those who actually threaten us, improving our diplomacy, and developing a more realistic (humble) and ...
Journal Article - Mar 3 2012 - 11:26am - 45 comments
- Ink Spots of Success: The Smart Power Approach to Our Endgame in Afghanistan
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... the Taliban? Success in Afghanistan is not and cannot be achieved through the military defeat of the ... available resources on building the grassroots economy and improving the quality of life of the man in the street in 2002 we would be in a ...
Journal Article - May 21 2012 - 5:48am - 29 comments
- The "Dear Boss" Saga
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... started with a letter penned by then-Captain Ron Keys in the late 1970s to General Wilbur Creech, Tactical Air Command commander. ... fighting? Shouldn't they concentrate on retaining and improving their fighting skills and let other people do most of that other ...
Blog post - May 14 2012 - 4:55am - 19 comments - 0 attachments


