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... Trying to be a "good neighbor" to the Afghans One Friday morning not too long ago I sat facing a row of ISAF officers assigned to ... they get to the Captain's Career Course--by then it is to late. Look at Assessments working groups---there are now Cmdrs who simply do ...

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

... Let's hope it isn't thrown out the back door at 5 pm on a Friday afternoon in August. Much more at Best Defense . ... Report Finds Major COIN Failure And now a very, very late note on a most interesting discussion. 1. Almost one year later, the ...

Blog entry - Jul 23 2009 - 11:06am - 52 comments - 0 attachments

... how to practice counterinsurgency in the real world, "at night, with the GPS down, the media criticizing you, the locals complaining in ... Raid Everyone's work of Monday is outdated by Friday... Kilcullen, as did Gallula, Kitson and others, frames things ... journal(started two days after we entered Iraq until late Mar 2005) which was alledged to have been written by the leader of the ...

Blog entry - May 7 2010 - 10:51am - 49 comments - 0 attachments

... a rural insurgency regenerating in various forms since the late 1930s. This is explained not by any abstract open sourced 23G global ... warfare---have we in fact reached critical mass? Friday, 24 March 2006 STARTING AN OPEN SOURCE WAR Open source war is a ...

Journal Article - Dec 11 2010 - 9:53am - 67 comments

... of proportion to their neighbors and we are to blame. Too late for the tribal/clan mapping by PhDs in the human terrain teams. LCOL ... about it nor understand it. From a blog today. Friday, 19 March 2010 JOURNAL: Failure as a Strategy (Update) Open source ...

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

... staff honest. This briefing officer also said one time late at night as he was getting ready to start the briefing with Westmoreland, ... of time investigating people's backrounds. Here is my Joe Friday suggestion as to what to look for. You need to find evidence of ...

Blog entry - Jul 1 2011 - 5:06pm - 59 comments - 0 attachments

... OFFICIAL: Thanks for joining us, everybody, at this late hour. It's much appreciated. From the outset of the administration, the ... that he announced to the nation tonight on the morning -- Friday morning of April 29th. The President mentioned tonight that the ...

Blog entry - May 1 2011 - 9:55pm - 28 comments - 0 attachments

... just like one of Stalins Generals who told him in the late 1930s that there was no future in mechanized warfare. I am not saying the ... As a final point for COL Gentile, we had an OPD yesterday (Friday, 30 April) at Ft Hood (where the Heavy Force is alive and well - and not ...

Journal Article - Apr 17 2010 - 6:59am - 65 comments

... because almost 3,000 Americans were killed on fine sunny late summer day, killed by people ultimately under the sponsorship of the Pak ... and CIA Director Leon Panetta, who arrived in Pakistan on Friday. The U.S. argument, one official said, will be: "We are willing to ...

Blog entry - Jun 6 2011 - 1:53am - 35 comments - 0 attachments