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... to be used on Al Qaeda suspects. Scarborough said, "For those who don't know, waterboarding is what we did to Khalid Sheikh ... have no basis in fact to assume. I do indeed remember 911, more personally than you can ever imagine, and I have read the Quran, in ...

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

... Muqawama - some important weekend reading - Strategy for the Long Haul: An Army at the Crossroads by Andrew Krepinevich at the ... radicalism; - Hedging against the rise of a hostile or more openly confrontational China and the potential challenge posed by ...

Blog entry - Nov 21 2008 - 9:47pm - 1 comment - 0 attachments

... major U.S. Army survey of leadership and morale found that more than 80 percent of Army officers and sergeants had directly observed a ... of the respondents said that they had worked directly for one... The survey also found that 97 percent of officers and sergeants had ...

Blog entry - Jun 26 2011 - 6:33am - 101 comments - 0 attachments

... cooperation, USMC Irregular Warfare Center, understanding the urban environment, more on Bernard and Dorothy Fall, COIN reading, and AQ's Pakistani ... knowledge must play in thinking about a new strategy for counterinsurgency. Although the importance of cultural awareness and ...

Blog entry - Nov 18 2007 - 6:57am - 0 comments - 0 attachments

... COIN as an underlying strategy of the Army. He has called for a return to core competencies of our various branches. Colonel Gentile ... and one hundred meter targets and sees targets that look more like conventional military adversaries with armor and artillery instead of ...

Journal Article - Jun 1 2010 - 4:36pm - 78 comments

... has been a dangerous undertow in civil-military discourse for some time. Before the war, Dr. Richard Kohn of UNC Chapel Hill concluded ... to address the torn fabric and weave a stronger and more enduring relationship will only allow a sore to fester and ultimately ...

Blog entry - Nov 17 2007 - 8:36am - 0 comments - 0 attachments

... The Kilcullen Doctrine - Mark Safranski, ZenPundit. While relatively ... doctrine". A digestible set of memes sized exactly right for the journalistic and governmental elite whose eyes glaze over at the ... led by the Taliban and their many allies take more territory, and state power shrinks. There will be no mass revolutionary ...

Blog entry - May 30 2009 - 3:34am - 0 comments - 0 attachments

... is about metrics to be avoided... Continue on for "what not to measure in a COIN Campaign" at Best Defense. ... Come on. The stock mantra that Ricks highlights that the more civilians killed the more insurgents made and therefore the less pacified ...

Blog entry - Feb 8 2010 - 1:36pm - 79 comments - 0 attachments

... must never be forgotten. Democracies have little stomach for them because too many gray areas exist--the just causes are quickly ... caught in the middle suffer the most. Distressingly, more and more insurgencies are breaking out globally that seemingly require the ...

Journal Article - Aug 15 2010 - 6:17am - 72 comments

... The Armor Corps in the American Army is gone, it is no more. The Army has become decidedly infantry centric. This wouldn't be so ... Death of the Armor Corps As a Kiwi with great respect for the American Army, I am surprised to hear that the author hasn't quite got ...

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