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... of pissed off during the entire video. LTG Barno seems more worried about the timing of the whole drawdown, with regards to the ... promoted a version of COIN that also is oddly disconnected from a sophisticated understanding of insurgency, or even a broad historical ...

Blog entry - Jul 12 2011 - 9:43am - 16 comments - 0 attachments

... in 24 months, and how U.S. policy might make each scenario more or less likely. Although all three scenarios involve risks, an Afghanistan ... wherever we can find them, a US drawdown and withdrawal from AFG and strategic shift away from the non-existential threat of the ...

Blog entry - Oct 20 2009 - 3:00pm - 9 comments - 0 attachments

... current U.S. approach as the starting point and adds 1) a more detailed theory of the conflict that highlights the political effects that ... two dozen interviews with current and former officials from Afghanistan, the United States and other countries and organizations, as ...

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

... the thesis of this article seems rather brutal. Quote from the article (page 2) "Killing civilians should be avoided, not ... law? Re: Killing Your Way to Control Please, no more cherry picking bits of history...an interesting read and slickly argued ...

Blog entry - Jul 5 2011 - 8:00am - 98 comments - 0 attachments

... shortly after Barack Obama announced plans to send 30,000 more U.S. troops to Afghanistan, retired Lt. Colonel John Nagl appeared on ... that the overwhelming casualties of these wars have come from IEDs. And no, the company I work for has no business relationship with ...

Blog entry - Jan 4 2010 - 12:54pm - 89 comments - 0 attachments

... officers to go to grad school, I tell them to stay away from military people. Have lunch with the lesbian anarchists, attend the ... McChrystal was "disappointed" in President Obama... More at BBC News . Also See (Update 1): Gen. Stanley ...

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

... the following sentence. "As the US military retreats from COIN, returning to its traditional (since WWI) reliance on massive ... the whole complicated truth. (From what I've read an even more basic truth was that you should pay more attention to mine warfare and ...

Blog entry - Dec 6 2011 - 7:07am - 48 comments - 0 attachments

... SWJ just got word from the Center for a New American Security that due to the lingering ... of the recent snow storm - and the possibility of yet more snow - tomorrow's Keeping the Edge: Revitalizing America's Military ...

Blog entry - Feb 8 2010 - 12:07pm - 4 comments - 0 attachments

... a paper he wrote recently in Afghanistan. (I didn't get it from him, by the way.) While it ostensibly is about metrics in COIN ... 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

... authored by CNAS contributor Michele Malvesti, is derived from a larger study that will be published in spring 2010. In Time for Action, Malvesti - who served more than five years on the National Security Council staff, most recently as ...

Blog entry - Dec 17 2009 - 4:00pm - 5 comments - 0 attachments