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... to the perplexing challenges of counterinsurgency and master new competencies as well as new contexts. Those in leadership positions ... and organizational agility all apply... maybe even class warfare if we wish to view Abdi-Ashirta's rise to power through a Marxist ...

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

... to effectively defeat our foe, which I try to emphasize in class. 2. You may want to rethink your view on NWC or distance JPME: ... someone to stay in a position for 1-2 years to become a "master" of it before moving on. Most military people who've had to move ...

Journal Article - Apr 5 2012 - 4:36am - 94 comments

... endure at the hands of the North Vietnamese. As a former Master Instructor and Chief of Training at the US Navy Survival, Evasion, ... network of torture-institutions. Do you truly want such a class inside the US system, people willing to do anything for the greater ...

Blog post - Oct 31 2007 - 2:30pm - 215 comments - 0 attachments

... is to be successful the Regiment and each ODA must also master the VC skillset and become masters at creating Wealth and non-welfare ... in poverty-ignored or exploited by the Chinese merchant class. The killer was simply “getting his fair share” from his Chinese ...

Journal Article - May 14 2012 - 4:42am - 59 comments

... a 17-year Air Force intelligence officer. He received his Master's Degree in International Relations from Troy State University and his ... - to positions of power, but in all probability that class would have taken the driver's seat no matter what we did. The red ...

Journal Article - Jan 18 2011 - 7:40am - 19 comments

... of Texas, pursuing a J.D. from The School of Law and a Master of Global Policy Studies, with a specialization in Security Studies, ... For context, I wrote the article a year ago for a CT/COIN class. I took an immediate interest in the intense disagreement over the value ...

Journal Article - May 5 2011 - 9:01pm - 73 comments

... and CSTs teams pushed the limits of the female exclusion in combat policy?  Is it time to adjust the policy? ... is civil-military operations (CMO) based anyway. Master Sergeant Watson gets it right in her article here: ... at the Academy and for jobs afterwards, regardless of class ranking. Acting as though the move has ANYTHING to do with combat ...

Journal Article - Nov 20 2011 - 8:34am - 46 comments

... to listen with officers who came to speak in my class last semester (company, battalion and brigade) about this conflict. They ... to boresight, train, etc, and we can always hire retired master gunners to provide additional training. As far as maneuver goes, ...

Journal Article - Jun 1 2010 - 5:36pm - 78 comments

... specializes in countering IED threats. He possesses a master's degree in Strategic Intelligence and recently completed a graduate ... see. Again, this paper was a short assignment I wrote for class and, honestly, the only reason I sought to post it at Small Wars Journal ...

Journal Article - Sep 13 2010 - 5:39pm - 50 comments

... we consider normal in the developed world, from the middle class lifestyle to government social safety nets, will be nearly gone in less ... Follow Sun Tzu rather than Clausewitz Here is an LSE master student's take comparing a Clausewitzian and a Sun Tzu based theoretical ...

Journal Article - Dec 11 2010 - 10:53am - 67 comments