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... The current situation in Gaza is a laboratory for the kind of conflicts that we are likely to see in the immediate future ... advisor to the Deputy Secretary of Defense. Re: Preparing for the Next Battle of Gaza This sort of thinking ( the article ...

Blog entry - Jul 5 2007 - 10:46am - 3 comments - 0 attachments

... warfare. Why Are We Preparing to Fight the Wrong War, Again? By General Gordon Sullivan and Nick ... and training it purports to be, it is merely a plea for retaining force structure for the Army -- and, oh by the way, the ...

Blog entry - Dec 23 2011 - 1:03pm - 9 comments - 0 attachments

... Have FST and CSTs teams pushed the limits of the female exclusion in combat policy?  Is it time to adjust ... (USFOR-A) had granted an exception specifically for White to be assigned to that particular ground unit, she should not have ... the stresses in most combat (and in those times of preparing or waiting for combat)- actually in most any kind of sustained ...

Journal Article - Nov 20 2011 - 7:34am - 46 comments

... discuss why the U.S. Air Force has already lost the Battle for Taiwan. My Foreign Policy article ... believes the south needs to shift its focus away from preparing for the Big War and toward countering a variety of asymmetric attacks ...

Blog entry - Dec 26 2011 - 8:53am - 2 comments - 0 attachments

... Galula's work on counterinsurgency and its applicability for today's COIN campaigns and you seem to identify a special kind of lesson or ... from the groups we can work with. We can go back to preparing our soldiers for real war. Projecting force on a large potential ...

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

... COIN as an underlying strategy of the Army. He has called for a return to core competencies of our various branches. Colonel Gentile ... mission during the nineties, it was simply a by-product of preparing for General War. That also leads to the idea that in the 90s, heavy ...

Journal Article - Jun 1 2010 - 4:36pm - 78 comments

... The killing of Osama bin Laden is a satisfying triumph for Americans and the U.S. government. It would have been even more satisfying ... martyr paradise on the same night, then wake up to start preparing for their microsoft certification. Ignore them. Re: A really bad ...

Blog entry - May 2 2011 - 7:58am - 60 comments - 0 attachments

... Death of the Armor Corps As a Kiwi with great respect for the American Army, I am surprised to hear that the author hasn't quite got ... IOT win the fight. What is key is defining and preparing for the next war. There is something to be said for the Dessert ...

Journal Article - Apr 17 2010 - 6:59am - 65 comments

... a debate well worth having but that we'd better get ready for these types of conflicts because guerrillas and terrorists aren't going ... experience temporarily when we discuss posturing and preparing the force for the future. Both Iraq and Afghanistan are too close to ...

Blog entry - Sep 16 2010 - 11:47am - 59 comments - 0 attachments

... Korean Peninsula Thoughts on Irregular Threats for north Korea Post-Conflict and Post-Collapse: Understanding Them to ... after operations are initiated). I am not talking about preparing the military from a training perspective (although that is of course ...

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