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... to our domain. Fortunately, there is already an almost direct analog for the DIME centric Green Beret, the Venture Capitalist. A ... welcomed. In 2002 I patrolled the villages surrounding Kabul and the people wanted two things, deeper wells and jobs. We didn't ...

Journal Article - May 14 2012 - 4:42am - 62 comments

... SWJ just received by e-mail this introductory edition of Kabul Direct . Dear Friend of Afghanistan (and to our foes too, should we ...

Blog post - Oct 20 2007 - 7:04am - 0 comments - 0 attachments

... (reframing) future expectations and anticipating where to direct military action; hence the laser "moves"....some call this shifting ... love to but am between positions and maybe heading towards Kabul in late Feb. The most refreshing thing The most refreshing thing ...

Journal Article - Aug 7 2011 - 12:30pm - 83 comments

... who served at the PRT in Uruzgan in 2005-2006 and in Kabul from 2009-2010. Motto: “ The ... say counterinsurgency I do not mean only counterterrorism direct action raids (although that is a part of it), or only clearing ...

Journal Article - May 11 2012 - 6:05am - 25 comments

... is if his body will end up on a stake on the road from Kabul to Jalalabad or not in the transition. I can only assume he intends to ... Karzai refused to budge, according to two people with direct knowledge of the late October meeting. He insisted that Afghan police ...

Journal Article - Dec 2 2010 - 11:22pm - 120 comments

... doubled our work in cities and villages from Baghdad to Kabul for a decade. The Army still suffers acute shortage of speakers of ... civilians are the masters of the military and they direct the effort, for good or for ill. When they direct the military to an ...

Journal Article - Mar 20 2012 - 5:26am - 30 comments

... are prepared to get out from behind their fortresses in Kabul.   What this illustrates is the folly of attempting to ... direction and, if at all possible, a single boss must direct the operations from beginning until the end.   Not only have ...

Journal Article - Mar 13 2012 - 11:56am - 35 comments

... makes us madder, but if you drop bombs on Jallabad, or Kabul as the British did in 1919 after Amanullah Khan invaded Pakistan in order ... is also incredibly dangerous work, much more so than most direct action missions, so all my best to those on point working through the ...

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

... base. September 11, Iraq, and Afghanistan were direct epistemological threats to the way of war that the United States ... in addition to the ill-structured nature of the battle for Kabul.  Related Content:  ...

Journal Article - Apr 30 2012 - 4:50am - 9 comments

... concerns over respect and honor; and besides, neither Kabul or Islamabad wants to extend governance to those spaces or popualces ... "People" individually. Nevertheless, if we are given direct access to *randomly-selected* People, we can wargame ("peace-game"?) ...

Blog post - Feb 4 2011 - 5:19pm - 90 comments - 0 attachments