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... School instead of MIT in what is a very short term cost saving measure.   We limit their creative potential to defined ... of a range of new toolsets for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. These toolsets doubled in use almost every year since precisely ...

Journal Article - Apr 5 2012 - 4:36am - 94 comments

... are being decimated in Iraq or martyring themselves in Afghanistan. It is a short sighted and politically motivated trade that is ... am most proud of is the one I received from RADM Fox for saving the lives of 43 Iraqis. So let's stop assuming that I don't know ...

Blog post - Oct 31 2007 - 2:30pm - 215 comments - 0 attachments

... Saving Afghanistan: Why the Iraq Strategy isn't the Answer - Dan Green, Armed ...

Blog post - Nov 5 2008 - 9:27pm - 1 comment - 0 attachments

... Saving Afghanistan - Robert Kaplan, The Atlantic Afghanistan is about to ...

Blog post - Mar 25 2009 - 12:38pm - 1 comment - 0 attachments

... COIN in Absurdistan Saving the COIN Baby from the Afghan Bathwater (and Vice-Versa) by ... ago, the Greed paradigm is more relevant in the case of Afghanistan - a country that has had a war economy since 1979, where warlordism ...

Journal Article - Jul 23 2010 - 7:50pm - 7 comments

... Major Jim Gant published his own blueprint for success in Afghanistan based on his experience leading an Operational Detachment Alpha ... off by observing and learning to be a better leader, and saving that creativity (or tolerance for it) for a future assignment. The ...

Journal Article - May 10 2012 - 4:55am - 16 comments

... Air Wing used the iPad to improve close air support in Afghanistan. Editor's Note:  ... aviation fires in support of ground forces, ultimately saving the lives of young Americans and their allies.  The downside of ...

Blog post - May 15 2012 - 4:48am - 7 comments - 0 attachments

... rates. It may well be the primary job post-Iraq and Afghanistan to rebuild the profession of arms, and especially the leadership. ... The Dossier review by HRC could also be eliminated, saving time and money and allowing potentially good to great people to be ...

Blog post - Jun 26 2011 - 7:33am - 101 comments - 0 attachments

... prisoner interrogation from Congo, Iraq, Afghanistan, Chechnya, Kashmir, Sri Lanka, eastern India, Thailand, and the ... mosque, religious college etc has these deluded souls saving the world. Consequently the traits are readily recognised – ... ended up sitting in a bare room watching videos of himself saving the world and guarded by women and children and a sleeping chowkidar. ...

Journal Article - Jan 27 2012 - 5:53am - 44 comments

... deepening bilateral trust than on applying the lessons of Afghanistan and Iraq to Mexico. The level of violence perpetrated by or on ... is won a battle, this conflict will continue forever, but saving the house is a sufficient objective. I'm not going to reform the ...

Journal Article - Dec 27 2011 - 6:10am - 42 comments