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... about a small one... Tom Ricks's Inbox Re: No Guarantees Well said. ...

Blog entry - Feb 1 2009 - 3:10am - 1 comment - 0 attachments

... limitations and vulnerabilities. Awareness, yes; panic, no. Similarly, the term "conflict ecosystem" is new, but area specialists ... feel that we are threatening them. Can one write similar guarantees that they will not feel threatened? President Bush made a ...

Journal Article - Dec 14 2010 - 7:37pm - 83 comments

... purposes.     No, the failures that lead to insurgency are far more fundamental, and often ... with gurantees of Hope. Most populaces lack these guarantees. My assessment of the Afghan Constitution is that it in many ways ...

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

... Supporting an illegitimate government that higher showed no inclination to fix, and that certainly had no inclination (or motivation) to ... is involved in delivering the livestock. Doing it this way guarantees that livestock will go to the people able to do the most good with ...

Journal Article - Oct 13 2010 - 1:39pm - 60 comments

... year since USSOF teams began the VSO effort. This VSP is no exception to the rule; it has its own unique blend of VSO applied by the ... and agree on a price prior to harvest time.  This guarantees the farmers a set profit and ensures they have a vested interest in ...

Journal Article - Sep 4 2011 - 6:55am - 9 comments

... Oh, naturally. In actual fact, the reason you can tell no one wants to be there is because every policymaker or CNN pundit now talks ... dont tell me "the people of Afghanistan." Your approach guarantees that we will be engaged in a generational war! The saving grace ...

Journal Article - Jun 6 2010 - 6:50pm - 50 comments

... a culture, a paradigm, and a mission which had positively no bearing on our national security. Unknowingly, he coupled U.S. foreign ... confrontation (especially when these effects were not guarantees). I just don't want my point to be confused with condoning rampant ...

Journal Article - Feb 15 2010 - 10:51pm - 42 comments

... government of the Philippines. In other theaters, where no such constraints existed, far different operations developed. I suspect ... elsewhere is put to rest, our political milieu guarantees that errors will be rife. The counters to that political design ...

Blog entry - Mar 30 2011 - 6:45am - 41 comments - 0 attachments

... as Option A, and be just as likely to fail as Option B. No, the hard fact is that however unpalatable, Option A is a hill we simply ... agree -- but would respectfully suggest that there are no guarantees in any strategy, military or otherwise, and that the current ...

Journal Article - Feb 9 2009 - 12:53pm - 28 comments

... exploring throughout the Great Basin. The company has no mines producing at the moment. USGS reports a total 760,000 tons in proven ... in any case, unless they get massive support and guarantees against loss. All very well to say how many billion the deposit is ...

Blog entry - Jun 13 2010 - 8:38pm - 27 comments - 0 attachments