- Independence Day 2008
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... - US Department of Defense Bush, Mullen Send Independence Day Greetings - John Kruzel, AFPS Independence Days - George ...
Blog entry - Jul 3 2008 - 11:00pm - 1 comment - 0 attachments
- It's the Tribes? That's Stupid.
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... with a 9mm and a smile, worked with Afghans every single day in the Government of Afghanistan. But, really that is nothing special. Many ... But, poverty was not a root cause of the US war of independence. Why should it be the root cause here. Do we build Dubai on the ...
Blog entry - Mar 12 2010 - 4:09pm - 91 comments - 0 attachments
- FM 3-24 COIN Manual Critique
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... inspired foolishness wherein the Administrations of the day tried to achieve a policy objective requiring a scalpel or two while ... people of Malaya. In fact, the insurgents actually won independence, they just didn't physically survive to implement their design ...
Journal Article - May 5 2011 - 8:01pm - 73 comments
- The Jones Insurgency Model
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... the the following comment comes out yesterday. 'By day there is government. By night it's the Taliban,' says one Afghan tribal ... at the beginning of this nation, our own Declaration of Independence recognized the unalienable right and duty of a populace to rise up ...
Journal Article - May 18 2010 - 11:00am - 57 comments
- The Fallacies of Fourth and Fifth Generation Warfare
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... loop that allows groups to gain greater degrees of independence and financial wealth through the warfare they conduct. NOTE: ... that matter than the ones the British faced there in their day. What's so different, really? The enemy adapts? The enemy chooses ...
Journal Article - Sep 13 2010 - 4:39pm - 50 comments
- Tribal Engagement and the Heavy History of Counterinsurgency Light
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... power and certainly by not granting the Filipinos their independence as had been promised made the US an occupier and the Philippines a ... first came here, nineteen hundred years ago--the other day .... Night came out of this river since -- you say Knights? Yes; but it is ...
Journal Article - Jun 6 2010 - 6:50pm - 50 comments
- Breaking Barriers to Deeper Understanding: How Post-Modern Concepts Are ‘Value-Added’ to Military Conceptual Planning Considerations
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... [28] More importantly, the core American values of independence, prosperity, and interaction readily accepted the automobile as a ... and discourse by all. Ben Ben, kind of a busy day today Ben, kind of a busy day today so a short response. I think I am ...
Journal Article - Sep 21 2011 - 8:18am - 38 comments
- Afghanistan -- The Sun is Rising
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... OSS correctly identified that the Vietnamese people wanted independence from the French (which the U.S. supported initially), they didn't ... the VNQDD's last base at Co Am village; on the same day, Tonkin's Resident Superior René Robin dispatched 200 Gardes ...
Blog entry - Jun 15 2011 - 7:32am - 40 comments - 0 attachments
- Ten Years Gone
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... of South Vietnamese lower ranking officers and do to this day. Good fighters with incredibly bad Generals, with a few exceptions, and ... a strategy against Americas military effort to secure the independence of South Vietnam based on a willingness to sacrifice his Army's ...
Journal Article - Jun 22 2011 - 7:45am - 40 comments
- The Use of Air Power in Limited Wars: Interview with Professor Earl H. Tilford, Jr.
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... sacrificed our national principles, as well as Vietnamese independence and sovereignty, to that end. Given Vietnam's equally ... be eligible for promotion to the next highest rank the day they are promoted into their current rank. Truly talented people could and ...
Journal Article - May 24 2011 - 4:45pm - 30 comments


