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... Less is Often More? The Paradoxical Impact of Force and Resource Constraints ...

Blog entry - Jun 21 2011 - 8:27am - 33 comments - 0 attachments

... said, "For those who don't know, waterboarding is what we did to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who is the Al Qaeda number two guy ... who can expect humane treatment from his captors is much less likely to fight to the death than someone who believes he will suffer a ...

Blog entry - Oct 31 2007 - 1:30pm - 215 comments - 0 attachments

... 600-20, Army Command Policy, states "hazing is fundamentally in opposition to our values and is prohibited." ... members of his platoon (a platoon he had been part of for less than 70 days), has brought to the forefront the issue of hazing in the US ...

Blog entry - Dec 23 2011 - 12:44pm - 88 comments - 0 attachments

... I offer an intellectual olive branch of sorts. There is a reason hardly any of these Design concepts will ever enter Army doctrine, ... of formal, final, efficient and material causes - much less how they might be related to problems of complex operations and asymmetric ...

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

... today's problems When is a revolution over, completed, fulfilled?  Traditionally, we prefer to ... than revolution as a number of events have started more or less from the non violent point before shifting to violence. It is that ...

Blog entry - Dec 6 2011 - 9:05am - 68 comments - 0 attachments

... Mattis: Military Should Rely Less on Technology - Christopher P. Cavas, Marine Corps Times . The ... audience Thursday at a joint war-fighting conference. "It is much more important for officers to get comfortable operating with ...

Blog entry - May 13 2010 - 8:12pm - 11 comments - 0 attachments

... the limits of the female exclusion in combat policy?  Is it time to adjust the policy? As noted ... what conditions and for what missions are they more (or less) useful?  Is the type of information that FETs and CSTs ...

Journal Article - Nov 20 2011 - 7:34am - 46 comments

... Nagl. Re: How Afghanistan Ends Munzur, This is a completely incoherent reason on which to base such a far-reaching policy. ... a thief, erratic, and the only game in town. Bringing the less radical elements to the table is possible, i do believe the SF raids are ...

Journal Article - Dec 2 2010 - 10:22pm - 120 comments

... of then-LTGs David Petraeus and James Mattis in 2006, is inappropriate for Mexico.  Despite ...   Nevertheless, he rejects COIN in favor of a more-or-less traditional law enforcement strategy.  On the military side, Major ...

Journal Article - Dec 27 2011 - 5:10am - 42 comments

... not quite in the way its advocates had hoped for... More at Foreign Policy in Focus . The Great ... who contribute to SWJ. However, Mr Hallinan's article is a lolly-scramble of mixed history and he has picked the eyes out of COIN in ... formed, or in power. Our role is no more, and no less, than to help bring such governance into being, and to bring the ...

Blog entry - Jul 25 2010 - 3:27am - 47 comments - 0 attachments