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... fighters even penetrated to the U.S. Embassy grounds for a few hours leading to desperate fighting by American troops. Even more ... Major General. These are his personal views. Re: Prepare for "Tet" To all commentators: you guys are obviously ...

Blog post - Sep 10 2007 - 3:14pm - 6 comments - 0 attachments

... Where do we go with Design in a post-COIN (for now) world? Counterinsurgency’s ... less profound. That DOD failed to properly assess and prepare for the role of a military in a sovereign state in its post-Vietnam ...

Journal Article - Apr 30 2012 - 4:50am - 9 comments

... the other quite valid if terribly flawed reasons he cited for the misadventure that was Viet Nam. Regrettably, the same characteristic ... told his forces to delay in order for the populace to prepare to rise up and catch the probably victorious in the attack infidels ...

Blog post - Feb 3 2012 - 6:54pm - 18 comments - 0 attachments

... strong characteristic of you to have gone on the wagon for 2 weeks…as you know…the theory is we can’t ... course of action was to stuff mattresses with dollars and prepare for flight.  One concrete example can be given of the scale of ...

Journal Article - Feb 27 2012 - 5:57am - 8 comments

... function (the term "interagency" by the way is a metaphor for America's Sisyphean attempts to create imperial institutions along the ... will soon emerge again so that we can go back to 1985 and prepare to fight them at the Fulda Gap reminiscent of the huge tank engagements ...

Blog post - May 13 2008 - 5:05pm - 36 comments - 0 attachments

... requirements in the course of the type of conflict for which it was not originally designed and trained.” [1] ... opportunity for both parties to husband their strength and prepare for the decisive confrontation that would occur after the Japanese ... all the better for the guerrillas. For example, the Tet Offensive of 1968 was a military disaster catastrophe for the Vietnamese ...

Journal Article - Jan 4 2012 - 4:25am - 14 comments

... The Serenity Prayer for Grand Strategy: Nine-Step Recovery Method for Reframing Problem Solving ... - Simultaneous, Sequential, or Cumulative -Prepare to accept that some items are not decision points; Rather, they are ...

Blog post - May 25 2011 - 8:23am - 20 comments - 0 attachments

... The Mystery of This War For Taylor [1] the ability of the insurgents continuously to rebuild their ... starts to improve ALP program will be initiated to prepare the village for departure of Coalition forces, and later ANA troops as ...

Journal Article - Jan 5 2012 - 5:36am - 0 comments

... America's military and civilian institutions, organized for Cold War conflict have grown increasingly incapable of dealing with ... intelligence, reconstruction, and language/ culture to prepare them specifically for their role as advisors. This training would be ...

Blog post - May 31 2007 - 7:03pm - 2 comments - 0 attachments

... knowledge must play in thinking about a new strategy for counterinsurgency. Although the importance of cultural awareness and ... War planners for decades have used computer simulations to prepare for future battles. The Iraq experience, however, convinced commanders ...

Blog post - Nov 18 2007 - 7:57am - 0 comments - 0 attachments