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... I'd like to digress from my usual analysis of insurgent strategy and tactics to speak out on an issue of grave importance ... that it instills in anyone who dares cross them, is to quote Master Card,priceless. Re: Waterboarding is Torture… Period (Links ...

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

... As Thomas Jefferson said, "Dissent is the highest form of patriotism ." The first problem with that self-righteous bull is ... system. -- Ralph Peters Re: Saturday SWJ Quote of the Day SWJED asked: Only one issue - I do not believe there is ...

Blog entry - Jul 12 2008 - 5:57pm - 10 comments - 0 attachments

... unorthodox thinking, I offer an intellectual olive branch of sorts. There is a reason hardly any of these Design concepts will ever enter ... been an essential element of any planning methodology"- quote. I have to disagree with you on this point. But, I think we disagree on ...

Journal Article - Aug 7 2011 - 11:30am - 79 comments

... “it is a method rather than a doctrine, an apparatus of the mind, a technique for thinking, which helps the possessor to draw ... with that in mind you’ll be O.K... Read a great quote today, “there is a simple solution to every complex problem and it is ...

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

... with the locals. It was to be a capstone event, the fruit of a four-month counterinsurgency offensive by Marines, North Atlantic Treaty ... that exist in places like Marjah. Until then, Dave's quote is apt. Once we can see insurgency as a game of checkers, we will be ...

Blog entry - Jul 25 2010 - 3:27am - 47 comments - 0 attachments

... October 2001, combat operations in the Afghanistan Theater of Operations have presented the U.S. Army with constant evolution of complex ... effort. Re: The Targeting Process: D3A and F3EAD Quote-"IPB, MDMP, Targeting and Combat Assessments are cyclic, not linear." ...

Journal Article - Jul 16 2011 - 7:50am - 57 comments

... have confirmed that Raymond Davis is a contract employee of the CIA, responsible for security at a safe house in Lahore. According to ... intertubes in the morning, our Rommels and Guderians (to quote another semi-liberal columnist) read them at night and marvel at the ...

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

... you are a stranger in a strange land, you need to be aware of, and hold on to, and be proud of your culture. In my experience you can ... Dave Maxwell- I could not have picked a better quote or a better man to quote. Thank you. Let's hope these words resonate in ...

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

... COIN Toss: The Cult of Counterinsurgency - Michael Crowley, The New Republic . On the ... Re: COIN Toss Ken, Sorry, never intended to quote you from anywhere about the Balkans, but caught the implication that we ...

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

... insight is not that COIN failed to live up to the claims of its advocates.  It’s that the claims were obviously false when ... history. This comment to me was completely illogical: Quote, "Seems like the Chamberlains of today are quick to reject the wars of ...

Blog entry - Dec 6 2011 - 7:07am - 48 comments - 0 attachments