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Security Force Assistance: Just Do It

... Security Force Assistance: Just Do It Appendix to Accompany CRS Report 41817 ...

Journal Article - Jun 7 2011 - 7:11am - 9 comments

Waterboarding is Torture... Period (Links Updated # 9)

... watching or causing the effects. The brutality would force you into a personal moral dilemma between humanity and hatred. It would ... of fairness and justice to be thrown away in the name of security from terrorists. He somehow determined that the honor the military, ...

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

The promise and perils of security force assistance

... has published an essay I wrote for it on the future of security force assistance . Theme: In the wake of the Iraq and Afghanistan ...

Blog entry - Sep 1 2009 - 9:23am - 11 comments - 0 attachments

Rethinking Revolution: Introduction

... and we are now moving to Foreign Internal Defense (FID)/Security Force Assistance (SFA) without a serious debate, informed discussion, or ...

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

DoD’s Combat Exclusion Policies Limit Commanders and Strain Our Current Forces

... 2011 in Kandahar when the joint special operations task force to which she was attached triggered an IED. In a press release, U.S. Army ... Reconstruction Team (PRT). In August 2011, International Security Assistance Forces (ISAF) echoed the same requirements and units in ...

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

How Afghanistan Ends

... identifies requirements for a smaller follow-on military force to pave the way for a long-term advisory and assistance effort. ... An element of the Pakistani military had left the relative security of the Indus river valley, and had pushed up into the fiercely ...

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

The COIN Approach to Mexican Drug Cartels: Square Peg in a Round Hole

... violence takes place among the cartels, but attacks on the security forces have increased since President Calderon began targeting the ... control. . . .  In all cases, insurgents aim to force political change; any military action is secondary and subordinate. [19] ...

Journal Article - Dec 27 2011 - 5:10am - 42 comments

Gates to Army: make security force assistance work

... by. The result, Gates hopes, will be an Army that can make security force assistance into a highly effective and widely used tool. It is an ...

Blog entry - Feb 28 2011 - 5:00pm - 12 comments - 0 attachments

The Targeting Process: D3A and F3EAD

... on COA. Don't forget the ATO/ACO that ARE cyclical and force the targeting working group to live with air targets planned 24, 48, and ... support to HN forces. SOF units may establish the outer security perimeter of the objective area (outer cordon), but HN security forces ...

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

Army Worries about 'Toxic Leaders' in Ranks

... increase their abilities to lead and command. It will force the branches to start policing their own more closely, to generate and ... in bull$#*t, having been DIs, recruiters, or Marine security guards that never really returned to their MOS. I have no problem ...

Blog entry - Jun 26 2011 - 6:33am - 101 comments - 0 attachments