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The Military Needs More Disruptive Thinkers

... incompetent but overbearing seniors in the face for one day longer. Dayuhan---and as a "area Dayuhan---and as a "area ... and the Second Reich. Well, in many cases, this pugnacious independence worked out - other times not. Technically speaking, Augtragstaktik ...

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

Independence Day 2008

... - US Department of Defense Bush, Mullen Send Independence Day Greetings - John Kruzel, AFPS Independence Days - George ...

Blog post - Jul 4 2008 - 12:00am - 1 comment - 0 attachments

The Case of Mexico: A Hard Pill to Swallow

... thrown into a family-friendly crowd of revelers during an Independence Day celebration.  In another, gunmen opened fire and threw a grenade ...

Journal Article - Apr 20 2012 - 4:54am - 7 comments

A Different War on Terrorism: The U.S., Turkey and the PKK

... well as the E.U. It began its armed campaign for Kurdish independence in 1984, and it is estimated that approximately 40,000 lives have ... are one people regardless of whether they live in modern day Iraq, Syria, Iran, or Turkey. The Turkish government has a long history of ...

Journal Article - May 2 2012 - 4:43am - 4 comments

Lost in Translation: The American Way of War

... away from their fleets and resupplies during the War of Independence.  From the Civil War through Vietnam, as America developed ... them to excel in sacrifice. Every canine form has its day, and so we may indeed be seeing the "revenge of the attritionist nerds" who ...

Journal Article - Nov 17 2011 - 9:17am - 9 comments

It's the Tribes? That's Stupid.

... 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 post - Mar 12 2010 - 5:09pm - 91 comments - 0 attachments

COIN Is Not Dead

... opportunities and basic public services. At the end of the day, the key terrain in an insurgency is not a physical space, but the ... theme - compromise. The fact is , with the award of independence, the British compromised in Malaya. And the IO that they were ...

Journal Article - Feb 6 2012 - 4:22am - 38 comments

Swarming: The Art of 21st Century Warfare

... emphasizing military purposes, their (agencies) fierce independence creates unnecessary barriers to national security. The ... as ignorant about the big picture of the ant colony on the day they die as the day they are born- but the ant colony does adapt over time ...

Journal Article - Jan 13 2012 - 11:28am - 35 comments

FM 3-24 COIN Manual Critique

... 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 - 9:01pm - 73 comments

The Jones Insurgency Model

... 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 - 12:00pm - 57 comments