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... One Tribe At A Time (A Strategy for Success in Afghanistan) by Major Jim Gant at ...

Blog entry - Oct 26 2009 - 8:49am - 57 comments - 0 attachments

... told via blog comments and e-mail that Major Jim Gant's "One Tribe at a Time" (at Steve Pressfield's It's the Tribes Stupid ) cannot be ...

Blog entry - Dec 9 2009 - 5:32pm - 57 comments - 0 attachments

... stand to watch a high intensity kinetic interrogation. One has to overcome basic human decency to endure watching or causing the ... However there are times when we as a society or a tribe must say that the rules are now a bit different or we will no longer have ...

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

... We need to start rethinking how we see revolution.  One place to start is with the great contributors at Small Wars Journal. ... It forms when many small and potentially diverse (origin, tribe, religious belief, (gangs) etc.) insurgent groups join together to fight ...

Blog entry - Dec 6 2011 - 9:05am - 68 comments - 0 attachments

... At that point, the "equilibrium" would have shifted, one way or the other.. Re: How Afghanistan Ends Robert C. Jones: ... and roles in governance, and those from the other tribe are relegated to the sidelines of society. Good farmland is taken from ...

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

... sought via threat of harm to the civilian population. No one supports people who seek to harm them. Law as in control and stability,is ... Pakistan. (Or at least the half who were not a member of a tribe or family with patronage connections to the new government). When ...

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

... services and not on weapons of war and the military. Being one half Irish and one half Yugoslavian culturally speaking, I am not inclined ... dispute, leaving at least 13 people dead. This is the same tribe who were supposed to work with Coalition forces for a cool million. ...

Blog entry - Mar 12 2010 - 4:09pm - 91 comments - 0 attachments

... running things. Today we think it is a sin to miss one meal and what happens here affects many others. How can that in aggregate ... from Montana up into Canada, with the members of the tribe being self-governing within the reservation, yet sharing rights of ...

Blog entry - Feb 4 2011 - 4:19pm - 90 comments - 0 attachments

... be judged on what happens in the field. We only have one commander at a time; Obama chose McChrystal, so let him do his best." ... these actions are seen as weak. The Chief of the American tribe is Barack Obama and instead of negotiating from a position of power he ...

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

... proponent of endless war. Which is why Nagl is one of the administration's most important allies as it tries to sell the ... is the only viable path to success... Much more at The New Republic . COIN Toss: The ... might suggest that the US might have been the strongest tribe in the fight, but it wasn't our fight that broke the will of the Sunni ...

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