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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 post - Jul 12 2011 - 10:43am - 16 comments - 0 attachments

... really most sincerely dead .” It might be more useful to recommend an actual change of strategy. Or, perhaps, to ... on the matter. As a result of U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, Pakistan will lose its ability to blackmail us by holding ... = 1, the White House/Pentagon/AEI/Heritage/Brookings/CNAS/UN/Whitehall/Brussells/western students of insurgency/etc. = 0. ...

Journal Article - Mar 3 2012 - 11:26am - 45 comments

... 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 post - Oct 20 2009 - 4:00pm - 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 - 11:22pm - 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 post - Jul 5 2011 - 9:00am - 98 comments - 0 attachments

... The effectiveness of these efforts will depend more on deepening bilateral trust than on applying the lessons of Afghanistan ... Insurgencies are popular uprisings that grow from, and are conducted through pre-existing social networks . . . . (Emphasis ... Department in the lead, otherwise certain voices from CNAS will dominate the strategy development. In other words a strategy based on ...

Journal Article - Dec 27 2011 - 6:10am - 42 comments

... 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 post - Jan 4 2010 - 1:54pm - 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 post - Jun 23 2010 - 6:04am - 89 comments - 0 attachments

... on your side in order that you can derive intelligence from them on who the insurgents are. It is important that you reform governance ... war much less likely, but making irregular warfare more likely. We see increasing pressure on governments caused by the Arab ...

Journal Article - Feb 6 2012 - 4:22am - 38 comments

... 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 post - Feb 8 2010 - 1:07pm - 4 comments - 0 attachments