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... of grave importance to Small Wars Journal readers. We, as a nation, are having a crisis of honor. Last week the Attorney ... stand to watch a high intensity kinetic interrogation. One has to overcome basic human decency to endure watching or causing the ...

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

... allowed to become national policy. That is exactly why we need adult supervision of the armed forces.. Re: How Afghanistan Ends ... At that point, the "equilibrium" would have shifted, one way or the other.. Re: How Afghanistan Ends Robert C. Jones: ...

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

... all the casualties suffered during the past decade of war, one -- the so-called Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA) -- did not die soon ... actors (threats). One aspect of long and indecisive wars we do not discuss in politie company is the fact that both sides evolve their ...

Blog entry - Jun 10 2011 - 5:40pm - 16 comments - 0 attachments

... O'Hanlon and Kenneth Pollack, on Iraq entitled "A War We Might Just Win." Among the first words of the 2007 article were: "The ... really succeed without a tandem improvement in the central one. Mansoor and Boot seem to be saying that most of the Kabul regime can be ...

Blog entry - Dec 16 2010 - 12:29pm - 2 comments - 0 attachments

... Trying to be a "good neighbor" to the Afghans One Friday morning not too long ago I sat facing a row of ISAF officers ... D.C. to Kabul, Afghanistan. "Okay, everybody, we've got a directive from the Chief of Staff to come up with ideas on how to ...

Journal Article - Jul 7 2011 - 3:24pm - 75 comments

... burden on a senior leader." It is a burden and we have all watched it at work... The information overload came with more ... ask Officers where they were during wars and affrays. One would think the Personnel gurus would know but apparently not. What ...

Blog entry - Aug 12 2010 - 7:14pm - 62 comments - 0 attachments

... my point. Circular reporting involves making up a story in one publication (usually an internet publication) and then picking it up in ... Omar-jee, and "L" (since you want it to be anything we will call you Lund) Here is more evidence of the "vast right wing ...

Blog entry - Feb 21 2011 - 2:00pm - 95 comments - 0 attachments

... paper is intentionally provocative, yet only focuses on one of the many complexities of the Korean Peninsula and Northeast Asia, namely ... in the QDR that the current focus is to win the wars we're fighting today is both logical and also extremely dangerous in my view if ...

Journal Article - Nov 30 2010 - 7:17pm - 54 comments

... States and threats will always be with us, but how we balance relationships with governments, approaches to threats, and ... 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 ...

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

... as new ideas. That happens rather more frequently. We forget a lot of stuff, and there's stuff we never learned very well. At the ... capacity of the Taliban are in no way surprising, nor does one require any special theory to explain them. Insurgencies may be ...

Journal Article - Dec 11 2010 - 9:53am - 67 comments