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... attempt at Desert One in 1980. Congress did what the military establishment would not. This legislation provided unity of command ... that Shy Meyer, another big Army guy, when he was Chief of Staff of the Army did more for SF and for what became JSOC than did ...

Journal Article - Dec 13 2009 - 10:25am - 77 comments

... the North Vietnamese. As a former Master Instructor and Chief of Training at the US Navy Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape ... from terrorists. He somehow determined that the honor the military, the CIA and the nation itself was an acceptable trade for the ...

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

... MG Flynn's comment into the appropriate thread. Chief, First, great article. Among the issues you raise is for us (Jointly) ... and once again narrow our targeting discussion to the military perspective of killing/capturing and breaking to support the overall ...

Journal Article - Jul 16 2011 - 7:50am - 57 comments

... between opposing major powers. He was stressing Americas military interest in other parts of the world. "America is now ... the Iran link came in January 1990, when Pakistan's army chief of staff conveyed his threat to arm Iran to a top Pentagon official. ...

Blog entry - Feb 21 2011 - 2:00pm - 95 comments - 0 attachments

... firestorm was fueled by increasing doubts - even in the military - that Afghanistan can be won and by crumbling public support for the ... frankly to his young soldier." "So, the Commander in Chief has little choice but to accept General McChrystal's resignation, should ...

Blog entry - Jun 23 2010 - 5:04am - 89 comments - 0 attachments

... on goods and services and not on weapons of war and the military. Being one half Irish and one half Yugoslavian culturally speaking, I ... LCol JJ Malevich, Canadian Exchange Officer, COIN Branch Chief, US Army/ USMC Counter Insurgency Center. This statement is my own and ...

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

... in February—captures the mutual focus of the Chief and his TRADOC commander on what our Army must do to shape itself for the ... the enemy through programs of state building combined with military presence to "protect" the population. It failed in Iraq and is ...

Blog entry - Apr 9 2011 - 5:48pm - 68 comments - 0 attachments

... Forces officer currently assigned as the Chief, Strategic Studies for U.S. Special Operations Command; with ... can be addressed early, without the need to bring in the military or foreign assistance. The trend of labeling all political ...

Journal Article - May 18 2010 - 11:00am - 57 comments

... For Whom will the American Military Fight if our Governmental System is Challenged? ... of the World War II this changed for a variety of reasons. Chief among them being that the United States found itself suddenly the only ...

Journal Article - Dec 16 2011 - 4:42am - 15 comments

... they must be won; victory must be achieved as the military has defined it. This is militarism plain and simple, and Yon is on ... military leaders have a duty to advise the Commander in Chief, but instead, as you say, they are simply trying to "win." We can do ...

Blog entry - Jun 20 2011 - 7:46am - 61 comments - 0 attachments