- The Jones Insurgency Model
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... The Jones Insurgency Model A Tool for the Prevention and ... example of a "claimed" successful Civil Goveranance from Iraq. Sometimes CG is not the only answer to insurgencies as it does not ...
Journal Article - May 18 2010 - 12:00pm - 57 comments
- The Military Needs More Disruptive Thinkers
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... Disruptive thinkers: the way to reinvigorate a senseless bureaucracy or a threat to the ... entrusting a 38 year old as the next ambassador to Iraq, twenty-somethings have demonstrated their ability to create and run some ...
Journal Article - Apr 5 2012 - 4:36am - 94 comments
- Waterboarding is Torture... Period (Links Updated # 9)
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... as a nation, are having a crisis of honor. Last week the Attorney General nominee Judge Michael Mukasey refused to define ... is a controlled drowning that, in the American model, occurs under the watch of a doctor, a psychologist, an interrogator and ... 2,000 terrorists, most of whom are being decimated in Iraq or martyring themselves in Afghanistan. It is a short sighted and ...
Blog post - Oct 31 2007 - 2:30pm - 215 comments - 0 attachments
- Philippines a Model for Counterinsurgency
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... Jim Michaels, USA Today. BLUF: "Though not widely known, the Philippines once threatened to become a hub of al-Qaeda... Since 9/11, the ... as the many Libyan freedom fighters who supported AQ in Iraq). Yet the two governments we actively sought to take down were the ...
Blog post - Mar 30 2011 - 7:45am - 41 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. ... years of non-stop general and limited war in Afghanistan, Iraq, the Philippines and elsewhere, Village Stability Operations are returning ...
Journal Article - May 14 2012 - 4:42am - 61 comments
- Design Theory and the Military’s Understanding of Our Complex World
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... it not think? Download the Full Article Author’s Note: Before readers pull their hair ... 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 - 12:30pm - 83 comments
- Disruptive Thinkers: Defining the Problem
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... An attempt to answer the question: What problem are we trying to solve? ... 38-year old Brett McGurk to be the next ambassador to Iraq. While many are attacking this choice, McGurk is being considered ...
Journal Article - Apr 9 2012 - 5:00am - 61 comments
- Ten Points for the FM 3-24 Counterinsurgency Manual Conference
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... Ahead of the COIN conference at Ft. Leavenworth, Robert C. Jones offers ten points for ... in many ways occurred during “the surge” in Iraq, but not during “the surge” in Afghanistan, with predictable ...
Blog post - May 7 2012 - 5:12pm - 43 comments - 0 attachments
- Ink Spots of Success: The Smart Power Approach to Our Endgame in Afghanistan
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... we focus more on creating ink spots and less on defeating the Taliban? Success in Afghanistan is not and ... of people forget about the early years, especially since Iraq became the dominant story in mid-2002. It didn't help that so many ...
Journal Article - May 21 2012 - 5:48am - 29 comments
- Understanding Iraq: Initial Assessment (Update Three: Model: Small Wars and the Theory of Games)
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... The real Civil War is about to begin ... Given the available information, I conclude that Iraq was in a state of near collapse prior to the American Invasion. Our ...
Blog post - Jan 24 2012 - 3:29pm - 40 comments - 0 attachments


