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... The Counterinsurgency Cliff Notes Techniques for the Conventional Rifle Platoon, in Layman's ... There's this and this . It is harder to see from Washington, D.C., where everyone speaks English, and nothing is blowing ...

Journal Article - Apr 28 2008 - 5:32pm - 6 comments

... to think about Design requires us to think from a different perspective - a perspective that lacks the very things we ... 2. Design (I do use a capital D, because it, in my opinion, is a field deserving of that recognition) does not fear failure. ... had a much more rich OODA loop in the book written on his notes and presentations- this "enriched OODA" did not ever make it into our ...

Journal Article - Aug 7 2011 - 12:30pm - 83 comments

... and relationships between parties are key. Move away from definitions based on degree of violence, type of ideology, or status of ... JCS definition is the 1990's JCS version. SUBJECT: Notes on Insurgency 1. Insurgency: An organized movement aimed at the ...

Blog post - May 7 2012 - 5:12pm - 43 comments - 0 attachments

... Dream.  He was a Soldier who served less than a year from enlistment to the time of his death who was forced to his breaking point ... good soldiers. And the big trouble with it is, as Ken notes below, it can get out of hand fast if it isn't stifled fast. You admit ...

Blog post - Dec 23 2011 - 1:44pm - 88 comments - 0 attachments

... men with larger weapons into a war would solve challenges from the tactical to the strategic. For Vietnam this was a very serious ... man for the job. Due to the job offered, As Bob Jones notes,there probably was no 'right' man. Bob rightly castigates Eisenhower ...

Blog post - May 22 2012 - 7:29am - 22 comments - 0 attachments

... much in the way of generalities should not be deduced from the Malayan campaign’ (Symposium, p. 24 ).  His remarks were ... 11,000 (Komer, p. 8 from 1952 British reporting but notes that Miller in Menace in Malaya quotes a figure of 500,000, a ...

Journal Article - Apr 16 2012 - 4:44am - 23 comments

... as human civilizations passed experiences and values from one generation to the next. "Writing makes possible the codification ... Five) Grant Martin...Great comments and I've taken notes to study this further. Apparently the humor was lost on me - I am not ...

Journal Article - Apr 15 2011 - 5:58am - 34 comments

... science major) that allowed him to view the problem from a different angle and come up with a unique solution.     ... this Distinction Matters On my first military tour of On my first military tour of Afghanistan in 2002 ... As Mike F notes and as I've heard from folks who've worked air on both ends in recent ...

Blog post - May 15 2012 - 4:48am - 9 comments - 0 attachments

... as a military doctrine is that it is a theory either built from military failures (Algeria, Vietnam), wars where the insurgents won ... nation. Sanford Sheaks in all probability accurately notes that "kinetic/kill-capture operations were alone not succeeding [in ...

Journal Article - Mar 13 2012 - 11:56am - 35 comments

... to make insurgents quit the fight or to deter other people from joining them, to understand their appeal, we must know what makes them ... insurgent recruitment.  For instance, Jessica Stern notes that Hamas identifies potential suicide bombers by looking for someone ...

Journal Article - Jan 27 2012 - 5:53am - 44 comments