- CCO Interview with Bing West
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... won the Marine Corps Heritage Prize, the Colby Award for Military History and appeared on the Commandant's Reading List. West appears ... nation-building. In the March issue of Military Review, I lay out my reasons. In a nutshell, if you hand sovereignty over ...
Blog entry - Mar 5 2009 - 5:18pm - 1 comment - 0 attachments
- Army Worries about 'Toxic Leaders' in Ranks
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... for personnel and promoting too quickly. I joined the military close to 20 years ago as an enlisted guy. I recall two prominent ... people why they were not selected... The Dossier review by HRC could also be eliminated, saving time and money and allowing ...
Blog entry - Jun 26 2011 - 6:33am - 101 comments - 0 attachments
- SWJ Interview with Bing West (Part 1)
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... extent ISCI wants to be Iran's cat's paw. In sum, the military dimension in Iraq has had a string of successes and is not now the ... Harvard professor praised it in the New York Times Book Review - certainly a first for a military manual. Most football commentators ...
Blog entry - Aug 14 2008 - 5:30am - 1 comment - 0 attachments
- Toward a Gentler, Kinder German Reich?
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... is, for all the rhetoric about Berlin having long forsaken military power and become a “civilian power” (Zivilmacht ), ... important ministry in this particular context) and, by March 2010, Schauble was once again campaigning for federal integration. ... Nationalism: From Friedrich List to Robert Reich,” Review of International Studies, 23,1997, ...
Journal Article - Nov 29 2011 - 8:32am - 4 comments
- A Combined Arms Response to "Death of the Armor Corps"
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... widespread acceptance both within and outside of the military. It has gained so much acceptance that it has essentially become Army ... on-going debate. Case in point is his recent call for a review of FM 3-24 in his essay debate with Nagl in JFQ. 2. As y'all ...
Journal Article - Jun 1 2010 - 4:36pm - 78 comments
- New Media: A Boon for Insurgents or Counterinsurgents?
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... A review of the use of new media in recent insurgencies. ... ability to mobilize large numbers in protest, a decisive military victory over the Mubarak regime was unnecessary. [37] The resonance ...
Journal Article - Sep 4 2011 - 7:02am - 29 comments
- Why You Should Not Let the Greg Mortenson Scandal Discourage You from Supporting NGOs
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... Rye Barcott, featured earlier this week in an SWJ book review , describes at the Huffington Post Why you Should not let the Greg ... you from supporting NGOs . BLUF. The U.S. military is increasingly engaged in "capacity building" of local governments in ...
Blog entry - Apr 28 2011 - 1:29pm - 25 comments - 0 attachments
- Counterlawfare in Counterinsurgency
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... was originally intended to serve in a strictly military context, lawfare came to be perceived as synonymous with anti-American ... to go through cumbersome and time-consuming procedures to review evidence and submit court filings. According to one defense lawyer, ...
Journal Article - Dec 14 2011 - 4:31am - 0 comments
- The US Army's Shift to Irregular Warfare
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... He earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the US Military Academy and a Master's degree in Joint Command, Control, and ... interviews with literally thousands of items for units to review. This notion that the knowledge base resides solely with individuals ...
Journal Article - Apr 7 2010 - 1:49pm - 52 comments
- The Tea Fallacy
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... known as "rapid dominance" may have devastated the military capability of Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq in short order, but ... doctrines, policies, manuals and the quadrennial defense review, as well as countless other official and unofficial statements, both ...
Journal Article - Mar 16 2010 - 3:49pm - 44 comments


