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... discussing the progress made against al-Qaeda in Iraq during the month of December and providing an operational update on 2 January 2008. Colonel ...

Blog entry - Jan 3 2008 - 7:19am - 0 comments - 0 attachments

... Hertling , Commander of Multi-National Division-North and the 1st Armored Division, provided an update on ongoing security operations in Iraq on 22 January 2008 Rear Admiral Gregory Smith , ...

Blog entry - Jan 24 2008 - 5:27am - 0 comments - 0 attachments

... Major General Kevin Bergner, Multi-National Force-Iraq spokesman, and Major General Qassim Atta, Operation Fardh al-Qanoon spokesman, speak with ...

Blog entry - Feb 26 2008 - 5:23pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments

... How does your organization think, and how does it not think? Download the Full ... I saw a fully functioning battle staff was with the 3/3 in Iraq in 2005/06 but that staff had been together for over three years. Did ...

Journal Article - Aug 7 2011 - 11:30am - 79 comments

... Post . BLUF: "A major U.S. Army survey of leadership and morale found that more than 80 percent of Army officers and sergeants had ... promotion rates. It may well be the primary job post-Iraq and Afghanistan to rebuild the profession of arms, and especially the ...

Blog entry - Jun 26 2011 - 6:33am - 101 comments - 0 attachments

... are a stranger in a strange land, you need to be aware of, and hold on to, and be proud of your culture. In my experience you can become ... It makes no difference to me whether we discuss tribes in Iraq or solidarity groups in Afghanistan because both universes exhibit similar ...

Blog entry - Mar 12 2010 - 4:09pm - 91 comments - 0 attachments

... Can you point out the purpose of the military and of the use of military force in countering an insurgency? After all, the ... (November 2009) and his operational experience includes Iraq, Bosnia, Northern Ireland and the 1991 Gulf War. He holds a Ph.D. in ...

Journal Article - Jan 26 2011 - 5:54am - 79 comments

... at discussing how to wage a counterinsurgency campaign. And I think the Australian infantry officer turned political ... take some time to go through a paper he wrote recently in Afghanistan. (I didn't get it from him, by the way.) While it ostensibly is ... before, it doesn't matter if we win in Afghanistan and Iraq.. the global terrorist network is still intact because we have failed to ...

Blog entry - Feb 8 2010 - 1:36pm - 79 comments - 0 attachments

... A Tale of Two Design Efforts (and why they both failed in Afghanistan) by Grant Martin ... enough in their decision making--- as they watched the Iraq SOF community develop their F3 cycles and intel/shooter fusion and decided ...

Journal Article - Jul 7 2011 - 3:24pm - 75 comments

... the insurgency in Afghanistan has generated immense media and public interest and is being compared in scale to the release of the ... example, there were 100+ autonomous groups operating in Iraq (as of 2006). 2. Fluidity: The insurgents are loosely grouped together ...

Journal Article - Aug 15 2010 - 6:17am - 72 comments